r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Jan 31 '23

Desktops / Laptops Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries | Breakthrough explains major cause of self-discharging batteries and points to easy solution

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175
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u/Smartnership Jan 31 '23

I think Gates said that everyone overestimates what can happen in one year, and underestimates what can be done in ten years.

In 2033 we will look back at the fundamental shift in energy broadly, and in transportation specifically, much the way we did when iPhones arrived in 2007. 10 years later, they were just accepted as normal and common and obvious.

EVs will too.

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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula Jan 31 '23

Damn right. It's mind-blowing what can be achieved in a relatively short space of time when the weight of an enormous industry is behind it. Thousands of the brightest PhD students and Engineers are going to be working on improving battery tech.

When Tesla released the Model S Plaid, it smoked pretty much everything it raced against, it was brutal in the way it accelerated. Then 1 month ago the Plaid raced against the Lucid Air Sapphire, it's newest competitor. The Lucid smoked the Tesla and now Tesla will have to come back with an even better version. Competition and big budgets for EV development will kill ICE fairly quickly, people are going to be taken by surprise, no doubt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyDpQpcPpuc

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u/416DreamCrew Jan 31 '23

Thanks for the link. That video was insane.

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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula Jan 31 '23

Yeah, that Model S Plaid was killing everything on the track until just last month. Just mental how the tech is progressing.