[glorgau]

Well, box up that tech and ship it to China!

[Dr. Sivana]

I do not think the author knows what “inflammable” means.

[Yo-Yo]

"Just modest indentation, bending or twisting of the batteries can cause nanoscopic fissures in the materials to open and lithium to intrude into the solid electrolyte causing it to short circuit," explained senior author William Chueh, an associate professor of materials science and engineering in the School of Engineering, and of energy sciences and engineering in the new Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

Sounds like an ideal candidate technology to survive the rigors of an Electric Vehicle driving on Michigan roads strewn with potholes.

[Jonty30]

They need to replace lithium with something else that is cheap and renewable before I will buy into the idea of batteries.

[Irenic]

EV is not the future.

[BereanBrain]

also, just recently we figured out how to make concrete that last thousands of years rather than 10-30 like our modern concrete. Some concrete from Roman times is still going strong, and researchers discovered the secret.

What was though to be a defect (inferior composition) is key to the concrete surviving centuries

How? When stress cracks form, small inclusions of scorched lime disintegrate from water and flow through the cracks, healing the concrete.

Our modern concrete does not have these inclusions, thus over time the cracks grow until the whole structure is compromised.

Similar situation to the Lithium batteries, perhaps they can find a analogous ability.

[wildbill]

Memo to self: Sell stock in that Solid Lithium batter project

[daniel1212]

seems about every two months there is a report of a (needed) battery breakthough, only to never hear about it again.