The article says: The new battery will be able to endure more than 10,000 charging cycles -- 20 times more than the current 500 cycles of today's batteries.
The article says: "The new battery will be able to endure more than 10,000 charging cycles -- 20 times more than the current 500 cycles of today's batteries."
Great research there, Papa. No claim there of any other virtues than tolerance of high charge rates and the ability to operate after 10,000 charging cycles. Only that it will be easy to make and, inferentially, similar in cost to the conventional Lithium battery as we know it.But since 10,000 charging cycles is, for many applications, effectively infinite - most devices with such a battery would either fail for other reasons or become completely obsolete before the 10,000th cycle - the value proposition is excellent for such a battery if indeed it isn’t dramatically more expensive to make.
The only downside I see to the adoption of this is that certain people who love to complain about the non-replacibility of batteries in Apple’s products will have to find some other hobby horse to ride.
Today's batteries are seem to be a lot better than only good for 500 cycles. If you had an all electric, charged overnight, drove to work and recharged there, this would mean batteries would need to be replaced a little more than every year.
Now THAT makes a lot more sense. . . and the economics might be more sensible. A battery can cost ten times more but if it's life is 20x longer it's approximately half the cost over its useful life.