Let's be honest.
The batteries we use today are a terrible product — almost as bad as those ketchup bottles that keep squirting everywhere, yet we keep buying them like martyrs.
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But there is hope, and it goes by the name Solid State Battery.
Today's batteries are typically based on liquid lithium.
They contain toxic materials, degrade quickly, charge slowly, explode, leak, swell, and worse.
The next generation of future batteries is based on solid-state chemical compounds.
They can be built around lithium, but also around a wide variety of other materials and compounds.
Solid-state batteries are safer to use, contain fewer toxic materials, charge faster, degrade less, hold more energy, and neither leak nor catch fire.
These batteries are most often mentioned as a product in advanced development, with massive investment from major industry players.
Surprisingly, a Chinese company called Blackview is offering solid-state batteries in relatively affordable smartphones, as if it were just another throwaway feature. If their R&D team has genuinely pulled it off, this is a real achievement.
Past experience, of course, dictates that claims from Chinese manufacturers should be taken with a grain of salt — and for now, we wait patiently for a new world of devices that will be more reliable, efficient, and convenient over time.
Image source: Blackview, Wikipedia
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