The future of EV batteries: Facts, fiction and forecasts with Michael Metzger of Jeff Dahn Research

[@jedics1]

Great talk, going to renewables is about more than just enough batteries and solar its also about making things that last and moving away from designed to fail garbage. I'd love to see the days where you buy products like a fridge that you use for a life time and then hand it down to your kids again.

[@AraCarrano]

It's all about the word salad composition needed for grant applications.

[@chrisconklin2981]

In looking at your web site, I notice that it is very EV oriented So, may I add that EV have the potential of providing grid base load. Interestingly, renewable can over produce electricity that can disrupt the grid. That extra load could charge EV batteries. EVs save the GRID.

[@chrisconklin2981]

My interest is the role of batteries as a part of the electric grid. The electric grid was developed as a collection of massive turbines that balanced the load real-time. Renewable energy sources such as wind and sola are intermittent. Batteries act as intermediaries. The fact is that renewable resources are growing while centralized turbines numbers are decreasing. What seems to be developing is a more decentralized system that uses distributed batteries (down to the consumer level) to time and load shift (no more black-outs). The point is: the need for: on the utility side massive long lasting industrial grade batteries and a working relationship with batteries on the consumer side.