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Old May 17th 21, 03:21 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Solid State battery technology Vid

On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 4:11:20 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On 5/13/2021 11:54 AM, kinsell wrote:
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sorts of wild claims, with no actual results to show for them.

Except, VW has tested Quantumscape cells and says they met VW's targets....

We will see. But only after many moons.


Lithium solid state batteries are still in the development stage, but there is a lot of interest in them by companies with substantial resources (i.e. car companies). I would not wait on them before deciding on which eglider to buy, however. Here is one assessment of the situation:
https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-...ate-batteries/
More about the technology is in:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1803/1803.04317.pdf

Tom