• @[email protected]
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    134 months ago

    How about phones? Surely Samsung would put their own new battery tech in their own phones right?

    • Da Bald Eagul
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      184 months ago

      Based on the article they are more expensive than li-ion batteries (for now), so probably not yet. And the article doesn’t mention anything about this, but I imagine there would be scaling issues.

    • @Plopp
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      4 months ago

      Do you know how big and heavy that phone would be with a car battery in it?

    • @RadicalEagle
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      74 months ago

      I don’t think solid state batteries provide as much benefit in smaller devices.

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        SSB can be a quite a lot denser compared to existing ones. Up to 2.5x if I recall correctly. Also less flammable. Edit: consider -> compared