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The future of our technology, and our planet,
. . . depends on one thing: the battery!

The daily or nightly charge of the:
. . . . . . smartphone is the most prevalent, but
. . . . . . laptops,
. . . . . . tablets,
. . . . . . drones,
. . . . . . wireless headphones,
. . . . . . smartwatches and
. . . . . . other wearable devices are becoming more common.

With the coming era of the electric car, and more advanced robotics,
. . . a need to swap to renewable energy, and
. . . an ever-increasing (and more mobile gadget-hungry) global population,
. . . humanity's capability of storing energy,
. . . is going to become critical.

Electrical power,
. . . whether portable or not,
. . . is one of the cornerstones of life, and
. . . one that we all take for granted.
And we are the problem.

W we need to concentrate on:
. . . . . . conservation, and efficiency,
. . . . . . alternative sources for power (Sun, and Wind),
. . . . . . the electric car, with an expected
. . . 20 million electric vehicles, to be selling,
. . . each year by 2030,
. . . each using a massive lithium-ion battery.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) thinks there will be
. . . 530 million electric vehicles by 2040, and
. . . that their electricity consumption will grow to
. . . 1,800 terawatt hours in 2040 – from just
. . . . . .  6 terawatt hours in 2016.

"The battery pack, is likely to remain,
. . . the single most expensive component in EVs,
. . . for some time to come, and
. . . the costs are broadly proportional to capacity,"

The world produces electric vehicle lithium-ion battery:
. . . . . .   90GWh in 2018, and about
. . . . . . 270GWh by 2021.

But, it's not just about electric cars, it's about electric everything.
. . . Tesla recently constructed the world’s largest lithium-ion battery,
. . . to power 30,000 homes in South Australia during periods of blackout.

“The way in which energy is:
. . . . . . generated,
. . . . . . distributed, and
. . . . . . consumed is being transformed.
It means a huge range of vehicles including:
. . . . . . warehouse robots,
. . . . . . construction equipment,
. . . . . . Buses,
. . . . . . Delivery trucks,  
. . . . . . Trains, and
. . . . . . airport ground fleets turning electric.

1-7-2018 Source:  Our Planet's Future: depends on #Batteries?