• Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    How about phones? Surely Samsung would put their own new battery tech in their own phones right?

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      4 months ago

      Where would you drive in your phone, bro? Don’t be silly.

    • Da Bald Eagul@feddit.nl
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      4 months ago

      Based on the article they are more expensive than li-ion batteries (for now), so probably not yet. And the article doesn’t mention anything about this, but I imagine there would be scaling issues.

    • Plopp@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Do you know how big and heavy that phone would be with a car battery in it?

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        4 months ago

        SSB can be a quite a lot denser compared to existing ones. Up to 2.5x if I recall correctly. Also less flammable. Edit: consider -> compared