Battery Technology – Is there such a thing as Moore’s Law for batteries?

Recently there have been pretty good headlines about EVs again: Volkswagen, BMW, Volvo, GM, and of course Tesla! In related discussion, people often point to Moore’s Law and how battery performance would follow that same progress as computer chips since the 1960s. But is this true?

Actually, battery performance also increases exponentially, however it only doubles every 10 years and not every 2 like computer chips. This still makes for pretty good progress and might offer the energy of a large Tesla battery with the weight of a full gas tank by 2050.

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