The race is on to generate new technologies to ready the battery industry for the transition toward a future with more renewable energy. In this competitive landscape, it’s hard to say which companies and solutions will come out on top.
Corporations and universities are rushing to develop new manufacturing processes to cut the cost and reduce the environmental impact of building batteries worldwide. They are working to develop new approaches to building both cathodes and anodes—the negatively and positively charged components of batteries—and even using different ions to hold charge. While we can't look at every technology that's in development, we can look at a few to give you a sense of the problems people are trying to solve… More here.
Imagine an iPhone that last for 4 days without a charge, an iPad that can do 10 days and a Mac that can go a month. A smartwatch that will do 50 days and wireless earphones that can give you audio pleasure for a month.
When we get figures like that from our mobile tech the way we use these products will change completely, and for the better.
It seems like it takes forever to develop new batteries, but I keep hearing about improvements that we haven’t seen.