Lithium is a stood gap and dead end over the long term. Aluminum is the future. Aluminum makes up more than 8% of the whole planet’s crust, it’s the third most abundant element after silicon and oxygen. It’s the most recycled material by volume and mass. 75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in use or available for use.
This is a new solid state tech that also cannot burn and at 1% loss over 10000 cycles will be the go too tech for not only consumer level devices like that pocket sized supercomputer being used to post all this stuff. It will also be the go to tech for drones and medical devices too. EVs are only 6% of the global power cell market the modern world cannot exist without the density of modern power cells.period.full.stop.
This is a multiple trillion dollar market whenever comes up with the next gen high density power cells is going to be rich beyond any imaginable level. The first trillionaire has already been born.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/aluminum-battery-retains-over-99-capacity
The DOD is already getting aluminium graphene cells that charge at 66C rates and can take 10000+ full depth of discharge cycles. Specifically for airborne drones and other drone use, think underwater and crawling on land ton. Aluminum is a triple valence electron metal it has triple the power density of a single electron metal like Li or Na, aluminum theoretical energy density is one of the few that can exceed liquid hydrocarbons on a mass for mass basis. Aluminum air fuel cells can double the energy density of gasoline on a kg for kg basis yeah like that dense.
We will comb our hair with ray guns.