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Originally Posted by blankall
You've got this backwards. We aren't seeming more battery progress because there is more demand. There's more demand because there is more progress.
Once again, the lithium ion battery has been in the works since the 1970s, with virtually all of the big electronics, consumer products, and automobile companies in on the action. Do you really think that having members of the public telling them to work faster would have sped things up? Once again if a company like Sony had developed and patented a modern cell phone battery in 1985, they should have cornered the entire electronics market. That's not enough incentive? Instead having Joe Public say make it faster is what was missing?
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I think its obvious if we threw more money at developing the batteries they would be further along.
Companies need an ROI in a certain time frame. Very few companies (if any) are going to throw endless amounts of money that isn't going to return anything for 20 years. You need either government incentives or a disruptive new company (Tesla) to come in and force existing companies into action.