We see these types of reports of breakthroughs regularly. This one was honest enough to say outright that a commercial application is years away.
I am sure it will be fine for some people.
Yeah, and I'm still waiting for my nuclear fusion powered Back to the Future car as well. I'm 76; I doubt I'll ever see one.
You mistake University for CATL, make that mistake at your own peril.
When CATL says something they mean it. They are the largest and dominate by far battery maker on this whole planet period full stop. They have factories larger in area than the whole city of San Francisco read that again to grasp the scale of their ops. They have the multiple trillion dollar backing of the full weight of the Chinese government and monetary system which for all practical purposes is unlimited funding what they want to research and more importantly produce they have the funding to do so with zero limits. They take something from press releases to mass production on a global scale in 6-10 years and that timeline is compressing with AI and their massive scale sodium ion batteries took 6 years , condensed semi solids 3 the trend is clear.
They said lithium air is their direction they will have them in production in a few years time they already have workings units at 10% of the theoretical capacity it’s now how to get that over 50% or more before they mass produce them.
It’s when not if anymore that’s how CATL works proven time and time again. They are like Yoda do or do not there is no try. When they do they do.