The Elusive Perfect Battery

The evolution of batteries has been painfully slow for a myriad of reasons and most certainly will not be explored here...zzzzzzzzzzzz. Seriously, I'm curious but there are limits. I doubt readers of this blog - why are you here anyway? - are battery enthusiasts. I'll let The Economist take it from here.

For those of you who hail from the school of "if we can put a man on the moon" (conspiracy nutto's you're excused from this obvious generalization) why can't we come up with the electric car!

We have - see photo. It even came before hand-cranked cars. It's just that it has not been proven to be all that practical. Then the internal combustion engine waltzed in and the electric car was fast forgotten.

Companies, engineers, chemists and scientists are now all hard at work in trying to figure out how to create the perfect battery for cars. With high energy prices and climate change on the agenda, the time may be perfect to speed up the battery's evolution. Chop, chop.