Quote:
Originally Posted by dyna mo
I entirely disagree. There have been incremental advances in battery tech. I'm a HUGE fan of the technology and keep my finger on the pulse of breakthroughs in this industry. There are none. Have been none in quite a while.. And none are on the horizon. Combined with e simple fact that the future is thoroughly unpredictable.
|
It's completly untrue to say there hasn't been advances.. They have been dramatically increasing the storage capacities of lithium ion batteries over the last few years..
Hell here is a breakthrough just a few months ago..
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0316113424.htm
I mean shit.. Just visiting Home Depot can show you major advancements in powered battery hand tools. 2 years ago all the drills used 18v batteries.. Now they all have 20v batteries and the batteries are smaller than the previous 18v versions. That is in your hand advancement.. More power storage capacity in a smaller package.
Now a jump from 18v to 20v in 2 years might not sound like a big thing, but keep in mind it took roughly 15 years to go from 12v/14v to 18v.
Claiming they haven't had any breakthroughs would be the same as saying there were no hard drive or computer memory advancements, when we went from having a few 100mbs of storage to gigs and Terrabytes..