Andy Halliday

No, no, no.

Now everybody wants an EV.

Well, anyway, one of the things that will make that much more practical is very rapid charging.

So here's this peculiar situation with quantum batteries.

You've heard of quantum effects, superposition, and entanglement.

That allows these very tiny particles or waves, they're not necessarily particles, to behave very strangely.

And they could allow quantum computers to solve problems that conventional computers cannot.

And that's what we just talked about with respect to the advances in the number of or collapse of the number of qubits that are necessary to achieve even the very difficult computations to correct or decrypt encryption.

OK, so.

A strange feature of the quantum world is that there's a thing in addition to superposition and entanglement called collective effects.

And that is what gives quantum batteries a special advantage.

Under the right circumstances, the storage units of quantum batteries don't act individually.

They operate in this quantum spooky action at a distance way.

Okay.

And what that means...

they behave collectively.

And in a counterintuitive twist, this means that the units charge faster together than alone.

So the more units of, the more cells within a quantum battery that you create, the faster they charge.

So let's say your quantum battery has N storage units and each one takes one second to charge.

Well, collective effects would mean that it would be