
#16: MIT Professor Donald R. Sadoway, global battery expert
The Vertical Space
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Battery of Industry
There's no incentive for the automotive market to go for 500 wathours a kilogram. That all adds mass and doesn't contribute anything to energy. The big incentive there is get to get the price point down, because that's the big obstacle to widespread adoption of electric vehicles in time. There has to be a large enough market opportunityd in some of these other markets, cluding aviation, to make sure that rd continues.
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