Hacker News with Generative AI: Lithium-ion Batteries

How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery (construction-physics.com)
The lithium-ion battery is, obviously, an extremely important technology. It helped make portable electronics possible, from laptops to smartphones to drones. It’s literally powering the transition to electric vehicles, and it’s increasingly finding a role in grid-scale energy storage, enabling more construction of intermittent renewables and helping with electric power decarbonization.
Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents first increases lifespan by 50% (eurekalert.org)
How to prolong lithium based batteries (batteryuniversity.com)
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production (newatlas.com)