Vacuum Maker Dyson Wants to Build a Better Battery

[PhilipMichaels]

Dyson is investing $15 million in Sakti3, a company that's developing a solid-state lithium battery that promises to last twice as long as the lithium ion batteries that power many of today's devices.

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[TechyInAZ]

Cool! Glad that a new generation of battery is finally replacing the good but not that great lithium-ion.

I hope this greatly increases the charge life of the battery. I mean, when you charge your battery over and over again, over time the charge time decreases. I hope they fix this too.

 

[PhilipMichaels]

I hope this greatly increases the charge life of the battery. I mean, when you charge your battery over and over again, over time the charge time decreases. I hope they fix this too.

Sakti3's Ann Marie Sastry actually addresses this very point in the TedTalk she gave last year -- how current batteries lose their charge over time. It sounds like Sakti's approach will address this, but as always, we'll have to wait until a solid-state battery is actually powering a device to find out for sure how well it holds a charge over time.