The future of batteries sounds absolutely amazing. There will be more capacity (and therefore more range) in the same amount of space and a charge time of about five minutes.
UPDATE: Solid State Batteries Are REALLY Here – or Are They?
Your local Chevron station would become a ChEVron charging station (you get the idea). Electric vehicles (EVs) would be lighter, cheaper, and as fast as a gas-powered car. The source of all this magic is solid-state batteries, and they’re going to change the world. But don’t hold your breath if you see one in your car soon.
Every few months, some company, sometimes a major automaker, informs the world that solid-state batteries are just around the corner. It feels like we’re always about five years away from some major breakthrough. In one big announcement, everything we know about electric vehicles will change overnight, and that electric car in your driveway will be the four-wheeled equivalent of the portable CD player, supplanted by the iPod of cars.
Two such news stories have been doing the rounds in the past two years. Toyota announced that it will have a prototype solid-state vehicle on the road by 2025, while Samsung unveiled a battery with a 500-mile range.
