{"id":139386,"date":"2022-05-15T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/forever-battery-quantumscapes-holy-grail-of-energy"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:22:47","slug":"forever-battery-quantumscapes-holy-grail-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/forever-battery-quantumscapes-holy-grail-of-energy","title":{"rendered":"Forever Battery: QuantumScape\u2019s Holy Grail of Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forever-battery-quantumscapes-holy-grail-of-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cforever battery\u201d is much smaller and more energy-dense than lithium-ion. They\u2019ll change the world and unlock a trillion-dollar revolution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qRpXBg47YLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qRpXBg47YLs\" rel=\"nofollow\">this week\u2019s episode<\/a>, Aaron and I discuss what could be the \u201choly grail\u201d of energy: the solid-state \u2014 or <a href=\"https:\/\/investorplace.com\/hypergrowthinvesting\/2022\/03\/quantumscape-forever-battery-qs-stock-luke-lango\/\">forever battery<\/a>. Obviously, lithium-ion cells are the status quo of today. And they power pretty much everything, like your smartphone, laptop and electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>However, since they comprise liquids and can only be compressed so much, they aren\u2019t the most energy-dense. And we see this limitation all around us. It\u2019s why that EV in your parking space can\u2019t drive long ranges or recharge very fast. And it\u2019s why that smartphone in your pocket will run out of juice by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The truth about the EV Revolution that\u2019s got everyone hyped is that it won\u2019t boom <strong><em>until we make better batteries<\/em><\/strong>. Enter solid-state battery technology \u2014 much smaller, more effective and energy-dense than its liquid-state counterparts. This \u201cforever battery,\u201d as insiders have dubbed it, will fundamentally alter the way things work in society. And it\u2019ll unlock a potentially multi-trillion-dollar revolution in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cforever battery\u201d is much smaller and more energy-dense than lithium-ion. They\u2019ll change the world and unlock a trillion-dollar revolution. In this week\u2019s episode, Aaron and I discuss what could be the \u201choly grail\u201d of energy: the solid-state \u2014 or forever battery. Obviously, lithium-ion cells are the status quo of today. And they power pretty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1617,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139386","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}