Liquid Metal Batteries - The Missing Link in Renewables

It will be one to watch.
Only if he develops the marketing ability of Musk. His battery is already bested by LTO with 90+ efficiency and 35-50 years of daily cycles, and are available and being used by foreign countries now. They can be charged and discharged to 50 below and are the standard for large electric vehicles (busses) in China. After a few years of beating them up, they sell them off at 95-98% capacity to be used for power storage.
 
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To add to the above, If these come to fruition at $10/kwh then sure, just make a big pile of them. I just hope his chemistry works in the cold. Very few do, including the li-ion he is comparing to. LFP isn't much better and I can't understand why Tesla put in the effort to switch to it other than to increase safety. The video shows the cold temp but doesn't show LFP at 0 degrees f where it only puts out 10% capacity. Imagine buying a $60k car and getting 20-30 miles per charge in the northern states. LTO would have been the superior choice with the drawback being less energy density. But compare that with getting the full amount of capacity in freezing temps and you'd be way ahead. I guess that's what happens when your decision makers never leave sunny SoCal.