AUSTIN, Texas — A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries for handheld mobile devices, electric cars and stationary energy storage.
I try and switch up the topics a bit to remind us that Not All News Is Bad applies everywhere, but this one’s too good to pass up. I’ve long held that a breakthrough in battery technology would enable advances that we can only dream of today, and it looks like we’re getting a step closer. Safer. Faster. Longer lasting. Sure, there’s the potential to increase the range of electric vehicles, but I suspect that’s just the tip of an iceberg of possibilities.
And, yes, this is the 94 year old I want to be when I grow up. 
Remarcable good news!!
It is very good news.
Now will the batteries survive our
Cold Canadian winters ?
According to the source story: “Additionally, because the solid-glass electrolytes can operate, or have high conductivity, at -20 degrees Celsius, this type of battery in a car could perform well in subzero degree weather. This is the first all-solid-state battery cell that can operate under 60 degree Celsius”
This is good news and I hope that it is true. I can’t believe that lithium-Ion batteries ever got approved, the failure mode (as we have seen so often) is to blow up and start a fire. Unfortunately, there is some skepticism over this announcement.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/03/21/054224/john-goodenoughs-colleagues-are-skeptical-of-his-new-battery-technology
Hopefully they produce some working batteries and shut the critics up.