The modern world could not and would not operate without batteries: our cell phones, many appliances, and increasingly our electric vehicles, just to name a few all require small, light, and long-lasting batteries. Just as importantly, as solar and wind energy come to dominate our energy sources, batteries will be more and more necessary to store these “intermittent” energies so they can be used when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
One of the more exciting advances in battery technology is the solid state lithium battery, which charges much faster and holds much larger charges than standard lithium batteries. For example, solid-state battery electric vehicle (EV) cars will have range of 600 to 700 miles (1,000 km), charge in 10 to 15 minutes, and all but eliminate risk of catching on fire as some traditional lithium batteries have done.
1. Liquid Metal Battery Chemistry
2. Sodium Ion Battery
3. LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) Battery
4. Extremely Fast Charging Battery from StoreDot (aka FXC for Electric Vehicles)
5. Extremely fast (15 min) charging lithium metal solid state battery