<story><title>Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/battery-reality-there-s-nothing-better-than-lithium-ion-coming-soon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wesammikhail</author><text>It depends on the application.&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of applications where Li-ion is not the optimal solution. Li-ion is not the defacto standard for a myriad of reasons in various sectors. Certain massive installations have requirements that li-ion cannot work for. For consumer electronics, maybe li-ion is the best thing we have but for other applications there are breakthroughs made on yearly basis.&lt;p&gt;Enerpoly for instance have prototyped Zinc-Manganese batteries that have great life-cycle, are rechargeable and have great power output for less than 40euro&amp;#x2F;KWh. In the next few years you will see more and more solutions targeting specific industries and needs. Li-ion is not a silver bullet as its production cost and lifetime is not the greatest of all the solutions offered.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enerpoly.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enerpoly.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Full Disclosure: I know the CEO of the company and this is not an ad or anything like that. I just want people to pay more attention to upcoming improvements in the sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thereisnospork</author><text>Not to be the negative-Nancy in the room but there&amp;#x27;s a massive gap between prototype and commercially viable at a chemical level and then another between chemically stable and commercially producible.  I wish them the best, but there a probably at least a dozen similar companies with roughly similar claims with different underlying chemistries (flow batteries, etc.) and many more that haven&amp;#x27;t panned out for one reason or another.&lt;p&gt;People are most definitely trying to replace Li-ion but its not an easy thing to do in practice, even if simple enough on paper.</text></comment>
<story><title>Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/battery-reality-there-s-nothing-better-than-lithium-ion-coming-soon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wesammikhail</author><text>It depends on the application.&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of applications where Li-ion is not the optimal solution. Li-ion is not the defacto standard for a myriad of reasons in various sectors. Certain massive installations have requirements that li-ion cannot work for. For consumer electronics, maybe li-ion is the best thing we have but for other applications there are breakthroughs made on yearly basis.&lt;p&gt;Enerpoly for instance have prototyped Zinc-Manganese batteries that have great life-cycle, are rechargeable and have great power output for less than 40euro&amp;#x2F;KWh. In the next few years you will see more and more solutions targeting specific industries and needs. Li-ion is not a silver bullet as its production cost and lifetime is not the greatest of all the solutions offered.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enerpoly.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enerpoly.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Full Disclosure: I know the CEO of the company and this is not an ad or anything like that. I just want people to pay more attention to upcoming improvements in the sector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barney54</author><text>I also wanted to make this note about the application matters.  Lithium ion are great, especially for electronics and EVs.  They are pretty good for grid scale, but we need other technologies there.  Currently the largest source of storage on the grid is pumped hydro (about 95% of storage on the grid) and it will continue to be the largest source of storage for a long time.</text></comment>