IN FOCUS: Better batteries will be a hard cell

By 2013-04-04T15:04:00

Li-ion has been so successful that, as its price has come down, to about $400/kWh today, this technology is even making electric cars a practical reality. But as Boeing's ongoing struggle to overcome a couple of in-service battery fires aboard 787s demonstrates, safety is the dark side of Li-ion.

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