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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/wish-u-well on 2024-07-27 02:37:53+00:00.

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[–] 106 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Honey wake up, it's the weekly miracle battery tech!

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I bet they'll conveniently forget to make them have 20 year lifespans when they start actually selling them. Because otherwise that falls into "too good to be true" territory and this is Samsung, a large tech corporation.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    There are probably more asterisks than starts inn that statement.

    Is 20 years the average? The maximum under ideal circumstances? What would be the effective capacity of the battery at 19 years? What is the maintenance required?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Finally I will be able to drive a thousand miles instead of walking them.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    yeah but imagine the screen size though

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That sounds like an excessively large battery.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    According to Samsung SDI's VP, automakers are interested in its solid-state battery packs because they are smaller, lighter, and much safer than what's in current electric cars. Apparently, they are also rather expensive to produce, since it warns that they will first go into the "super premium" EV segment of luxury electric cars that can cover more than 600 miles on a charge.

    Apparently not, though this is all marketing speak

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Wow! A battery that can magically transport itself 600 miles! What a world we live in!

    Or, you know, it's a no sense claim with made up numbers.

    I have been seeing multiple battery tech claims per week, ever week, for the past 30 years and well over 99% of the claims are bull. Dumb claims like this battery goes 600 miles" tells you all you need to know.

    Show me the money, then we'll talk

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