All-Solid Lithium Sulfur Battery Stores Four Times as Much Energy as Lithium Ion Batteries

The cheaper part sounds good to me!

At last a battery without ions!!

When you hear "lithium ion" you could get the wrong idea that a battery is an electrochemical system.

? "When you hear "lithium ion" you could get the wrong idea that a battery is an electrochemical system"

From wiki: "The three primary functional components of a lithium-ion battery are the anode (negative), cathode (positive) and electrolyte. Generally, the anode of a conventional lithium-ion cell is made from carbon. The positive electrode is a metal oxide, and the electrolyte is a lithium salt in an organic solvent. The electrochemical roles of the electrodes reverse between anode and cathode, depending on the direction of current flow through the cell."

Me always thunkeded that they WERE ... "an electrochemical system"...

If'n they tweren't , wouldn't they not be more of a capacitator...? (sic)

back inthe 1950's, ads said you could get your transistor radio running 100 hours with standard batteries vs. 400 hours with mercury batteries. Then Hg started to be a bad word so first thing the name was changed to "alkaline batteries". Then as it was cadmium's time, first measure was to change battery label color to green (as opposed to "cadmium red"). Batteries were made to be really Hg- and Cd-free later on.

For a battery name to turn into a buzzword, it must be made up of 3 nouns as in "lithium sulfur battery". This is why the new lithium generation had to be called a "lithium ion battery",as if the older generation of "lithium batteries" could work without ions. As you point out, there is no way a battery will work without ions, because they are all electrochemical systems. Not so with real capacitors... supercapacitors are a little different!

Rumor has it they have came up with a new ultra super battery that will allow a single battery the size of common D cell to power a full sized sedan 450 miles at 65 MPH on a single charge.

Rumor has it the new EV's will now all be refitted with a AAA equivalent of the new ultra super battery, a 5000 watt sound system, full time all wheel drive, all electric heating and AC, power steering, and daytime running lights giving them an average driving range of around 40 - 60 miles on a charge.

(You just know they would do that don't you?)