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Other Solid state batteries

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trav656

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Feb 25, 2019
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Can't Apple use solid state batteries which are safer and can be smaller and charge faster. Like the company Quantumscape is making. I read an article that they are gonna use Quantumscapes batteries in their electric cars but iphones need them also. It seems that Apple needs innovation in the battery area which hasn't changed from lithium ion in a long time. Even if their expensive. What do you think?
 
I'm all in on better technology/performance/longevity/safety as far as batteries are concerned as long as it doesn't increase the cost of the phone drastically.
 
trav656 said:
Can't Apple use solid state batteries which are safer and can be smaller and charge faster. Like the company Quantumscape is making. I read an article that they are gonna use Quantumscapes batteries in their electric cars but iphones need them also. It seems that Apple needs innovation in the battery area which hasn't changed from lithium ion in a long time. Even if their expensive. What do you think?
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I'd assume that since that company seems to have only talked about their tech as it relates to electric vehicles, they're probably not able to miniaturise it to the what would be needed in an iPhone (whether that's because of cost, tech, materials, etc, I have no clue).

There's always fancy new battery tech coming out and always a million reason as to why it's the battery of the future but not the battery of right now.
 
trav656 said:
Can't Apple use solid state batteries which are safer and can be smaller and charge faster. Like the company Quantumscape is making. I read an article that they are gonna use Quantumscapes batteries in their electric cars but iphones need them also. It seems that Apple needs innovation in the battery area which hasn't changed from lithium ion in a long time. Even if their expensive. What do you think?
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The technology is just not there yet. If it were you would see teslas driving with solid state batteries by now. But Elon himself didn't see it as a current viable option.

They currently do exist but they are in there infancy, while they are much safer, they currently don't have the same capacity as a regular lithium battery. (Less than half from memory). As such they aren't really viable to be put in any of apple devices, especially if they need to a) make profit and b) be better than the previous generation.

I do agree with there needing to be advancements in battery tech, these lithium batteries can go bad as soon as 2 years in suboptimal conditions. Would love it so that no matter what I do the battery wouldn't be the first component to go bad.
 
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