{"id":100847,"date":"2020-01-14T11:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/ibms-plan-to-design-solid-state-batteries-using-quantum-tech"},"modified":"2020-01-14T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:02:49","slug":"ibms-plan-to-design-solid-state-batteries-using-quantum-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/ibms-plan-to-design-solid-state-batteries-using-quantum-tech","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s Plan to Design Solid-State Batteries Using Quantum Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibms-plan-to-design-solid-state-batteries-using-quantum-tech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Batteries are the key to decarboni z ing both transport and the grid, but today\u2019s technology is still a long way from living up to this promise. IBM seems to have decided its computing chops are the key to solving the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries are still the gold standard technology in this field, and they\u2019ve come a long way; 10 years ago they could just about get your iPod through the day, today they can power high-performance cars over hundreds of miles.<\/p>\n<p>But if we want to reach a point w h ere batteries can outperform gasoline or store huge amounts of solar energy, we need some breakthroughs. So IBM has teamed up with Mercedes-Benz and its parent company Daimler to develop new batteries that could match up to our needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batteries are the key to decarboni z ing both transport and the grid, but today\u2019s technology is still a long way from living up to this promise. IBM seems to have decided its computing chops are the key to solving the problem. Lithium-ion batteries are still the gold standard technology in this field, and they\u2019ve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}