Is the Lithium-ion crown slipping?

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Published 2024-05-26
Can lithium-ion technology ever lose it's crown as the undisputed king of battery energy storage? Well, if it is to happen, it could be one of these contenders that takes the title.

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All Comments (21)
  • "A group of proper grown ups" . They seem to be in short supply these days. Love your channel
  • @dougsheldon5560
    Long time viewers have learned to gauge the importance of a technology by the height of your eyebrow rise, Dave.
  • @malcolmfram5523
    What a brilliant blog. This is what the Internet was invented for. Information, help, understanding.
  • @BeekeeperBill
    "Delusional hopium" excellent phrase I will find very useful 😂
  • @someguydino6770
    nice delivery of complex subject matter + streamlined compelling graphics= double WIN here!
  • Thank you for presenting a balanced view of the development of electrification in all its iterations. Keep onward...
  • @SisGuitarGAS
    Lovely to hear you speak at the Everything electric show at Harrogate this morning Dave! Even my 13 year old that I dragged along found it interesting - well done!
  • @andycotton162
    Nice to see the man behind the YouTube lens, in person at Everything electric north last friday. Great debates and input from the panellists.
  • @Yanquetino
    The graph of how the different chemistries stack up is helpful!
  • You've got to love the folks at Fraunhofer - they know so much and present it so well, whatever the subject matter. (I visited them at Erlangen a couple of times around 20 years ago.)
  • @2011ppower
    Thanks Dave for another useful review for those of us too lazy to reseach for ourselves 😁👍
  • @breakablec
    Would be interesting to see a 3d chart of maturity, energy density, potential cost (considering price of materials and assembly), safety and possibly a vector on development speed for comparison.
  • @mrxmry3264
    Decades ago I read about sodium-sulfur batteries. I don't remember the details, but I do remember that they had a high operating temperature, hot enough to melt both the sodium and the sulfur. The upside was that when those batteries cooled down, they had zero self-discharge because everything in there was solid.
  • @tommclean7410
    I am disappointed that iron-air batteries were not included in the study. They are much higher on the TRL scale than the two metal-air battery types considered and may soon be a highly cost-effective solution to long-duration storage (100 hours). In fact, Form Energy is building an iron-air battery factory in the US now with contracts to install storage sites in 2025. Highly informative video as always!
  • @paddylogan13
    I was at all 3 days of EE North. I attended a lot of your panels and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a great weekend, thank you.
  • @Rouleau84
    Yes, I've been waiting for a video like this for a while, there are so many different competing battery options that it's hard to tell which is best.
  • @Rkcuddles
    13:49 looove this graphic. Can’t wait for the solid state roundup
  • @shawnr771
    Thank you for the update and comnentary.