Steven Novella

Yeah.

The wish list for batteries.

Yeah.

Box checked.

So this small company comes out of nowhere at the Consumer Electronics Show, right?

With this battery, they say it's a solid-state battery, 400 watt-hours per kilogram, which is greater than the current lithium-ion batteries in cars today, 100,000 charge cycles, able to recharge in five minutes, stable without any risk of fire, operates from minus 30 to 100 degrees.

And all of this cheaper than current lithium-ion batteries, like a literal wish list for a commercial battery for EVs or a lot of purposes.

And I forgot one more thing.

And it doesn't require any geopolitically sensitive materials, you know, like cobalt.

So right there, it's like, really?

Because usually battery advances are incremental, and there's a trade-off, and they improve one thing at the expense of something else.

And just sort of over time, we're sort of eking forward, but cumulatively, we're making pretty good progress.

But saying, hey, we've done all of this in one go is really a massive red flag.

But there were other red flags, too.

This is a small company.

And there are other companies with investing billions of dollars into this.

So how did they beat out all of the giants in such a profound way?

Like leapfrog over them by five years, 10 years.

Right.

Doesn't sound plausible.