A Battery Breakthrough Could End Lithium-Ion’s Reign
Potassium batteries are coming for the throne
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4 min readMar 9, 2020
Chances are, if you own a smartphone or laptop, much of your life revolves around a lithium-ion battery. It’s just as likely that you know about this battery’s downsides: It eventually stops holding a charge, lithium is scarce and mining it is horrible for the environment, and sometimes, it blows…
