Solid state Batteries, The future of Transport...

As a avid user of Lithium batteries, I have seen the progression of much storage devices begin to gather a lot of traction... Since the early eighties John B. Goodenough had been working on lithium

Rechargeable batteries... Although Sony had scaled the production for commercialization... John B Goodenough has been credited for the original idea... Winning a Japanese prize in 2001 for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight rechargeable batteries.


Since the growing trend of electric vehicles in the 1800s... The use of old technology of lead acid batteries left the electric car trend behind when ironically a electric motor replace the hand crack of a old petrol car... The use of petrol and diesel replace the electric car, simply because the technology can prove to provide longer range and fast replenishing times then the current battery technology... But a resurgence in the mid 90s documented in the film "who killed the Electric car?", as incorporated several thousands
 Lithium batteries, whose original used was from computer laptops... When inventor of the cars modern drive controller Alan Cocconi first prototyped the electric car... In amongst the political and possible future of GMs first electric car... A Silicon Valley company called "Tesla", Spearheaded a continued trend to create the first successful modern electric Car company... A business move, much to the regret of GM and other car manufacturers has turns the car industry upside down...
As well as electric cars here has been a diverse array of alternative vehicles that has surface in the markets... Other start up companies has been exploring, Electric planes, electric bikes, Drones, Electric boats and Hover cycles...
With only one main drawback, these vehicles has yet to be scaled up to commercial success... Currently modern lithium battery has progressed slowly due to the nature of chemistry, is a polar opposite to silicone chip development...
Modern Lithium batteries also have a inherent flaw of its liquid electrolyte being the only system that has worked for storing electrical charge... This required the ions in the battery to flow and intercalation within the batteries liquid electrolyte and electrodes... This mixing of ions and liquid electrolyte and battery electrodes causes dendrites or possible electrical shorts as well as puffy battery packs with a narrow range of temperature tolerances... In-short the batteries liquid electrolyte is its biggest flaw in its fundamental design...
Currently after much research in lithium chemistry and other battery designs... as well as the formulation of a new test rig to research into battery degradation... Solid state batteries has become the buzz word for next big thing in power storage technology...

Again John B. Goodenough along with colleague Maria Helena Braga, has developed a glass electrolyte that replaces the liquid gel that fills in between the positive and negative electrodes... The theory is that glass is a dielectric material that can hold a electrostatic charge for the positive and negative electrodes... The battery with its capacitor-like properties should hold greater mount of energy and removes the possibility of dendrites and electrical shorts, with the added bonus of increased charge cycles...

Currently other car manufactures such as Fisker and BMW and Volt-wagon have predicted a possible solid state battery future with-in 2025... While the future is bright in the electric car world its hard to say what the future hold for drones utilizing this technology... As the current system for drones is to use lithium polymer batteries, whose flaws are greatly ignored to solve a problem of limited weigh and power density issues for a prolonged flight...

 As well as safety issues, as many flight operators may disallow lithium batteries over a 150w/hr due to its explosive nature in its chemistry... Removing the inherent danger of a lithium battery would allow transporting drones for people on holiday as hassle free experience...  Dji has not come with a official policy to use such technology... But due to its innovation and its aggressive nature to maintain market share, its likely that DJI would incorporate solid state batteries to remain at the top... The advantages alone would bring about incredible flight times of at least double the current specs of today drones... and with such a platform,  it could bring about a change on how we film and capture our selves in the future...