What's the news on finally getting better batteries? I was doing some research myself...

What's the news on finally getting better batteries? I was doing some research myself, but haven't found too much of promise.

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Battery improvements are happening right under our noses. In the 1990's we could barely get 3 hours of usage in a laptop computer. In this age, it is very common to get 8 hour life for light usage.

You are not a chemical engineer working in the industry so you don't know the techniques that are coming out of academia and being implemented in the marketplace.

Actually I think that's more thanks to modern hardware using A LOT less power.

I mean my old 3310 has a 1000mAh battery, my 9000 Communicator has an 800mAh battery. A Galaxy S2 has a 1650mAh while a S5 has a 2600mAh. Meanwhile my Note 4 has 3200mAh. That's not exactly leaps and bounds, especially considering how phones have gotten physically bigger due to being media consumption devices and thus have physically larger batteries.

I mean yes there have been improvements, but overall we're talking like... ~250% increase over ~25 years. That's definitely nothing amazing.
Hell, even internal combustion engines have had a larger efficiency boost than that over the same timeframe.

Not happening unless somebody discovers a whole new battery chemistry that is cost-competitive with Li-Ion/Li-Poly. There's physical limits on how much (rechargeable) energy you can store within a given mass/volume, and modern batteries are pretty close to that.

There's a new type of battery coming using graphene which splits the cells up and allows for very fast charging.

A conceptual method for fueling the electric car is being developed, since charge stations take too long of a time. One idea is to recharge the car by filling a tank with spheres that are batteries. Essentially replacing the fuel tank with a battery bank of balls.

Some student created a fast charging battery before the one with graphene.

These are some things that I remember from 3 years back up until this point.

There's also talk about hydrogen fuel cell batteries, but the problem was that the membrane had to be platinum and it decays quickly, so it wasn't profitable to develop. The guy with the coal inventions and graphene microtubes claims that his coal graphene membranes solved the issue of the hydrogen fuel cell, making it viable to use. Problem is that graphene costs a lot to make right now, so scientists are trying to find a cheaper way to make it.

Can we focus less on getting massive amounts of battery life and instead on making an adequate replacement for Lithium Ion that you know... DOESN'T BURST INTO FLAMES RANDOMLY

It already it exists, it's called proper testing, quality control,checking on suppliers and not trying to be absloute thinest device around. Source: archive.is/sKkNS

that was just shoddy manufacturing and design

Batteries have gotten better. But none of that matters if the device just demands more power anyway.

Kind of like how computers have gotten faster, but operating systems and programs have become bloated to match.

I don't think so. ICEs are still approximately 30% efficient.