RMIT engineers say they’ve tripled the energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries, which can now challenge commercially available lithium-ion batteries for capacity with a specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah. None of that is true.

    There was plenty of electric car R&D (and it was never overly restricted by patents). Battery technology and electronics were just not got enough until recently, and there wasn’t as much of a financial incentive to go electric.

    Kodak is a standard example of a company’s failure to migrate from its legacy business. It very much did not stifle digital imaging.