{"id":10148,"date":"2015-03-16T02:35:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T06:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2015-03-16T02:35:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T06:35:34","slug":"sci-tech-dyson-invests-in-sakti-lithium-battery-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10148","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Dyson invests in Sakti lithium battery company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dyson<\/a> of vacuum cleaner fame is making a significant investment in the small Michigan company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sakti3.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Sakti<\/a>, which is developing a solid-state lithium battery that they say could eventually store usable\u00a0energy\u00a0at $100 per kWh vs $500 per kWh for current lithium-ion batteries. Energy density is also said to be double that of current li-ion. (Haven&#8217;t seen any numbers for the power density, i.e.\u00a0kW per kg.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/03\/15\/dyson-powers-20m-investment-into-solid-state-battery-company-sakti3\/\" target=\"_d\">Dyson powers $20M investment into solid-state battery company Sakti3\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0VentureBeat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-battery-revolution-a-clean-leap-forward-1426461806?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_tech\" target=\"_d\">In Battery Revolution, a Clean Leap Forward: <em>Vacuum maker Dyson is investing in Sakti3\u2019s energy technology<\/em> &#8211; WSJ<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/secretive-company-claims-battery-breakthrough\/\" target=\"_d\">Secretive Company Claims Battery Breakthrough: <em>The Michigan start-up Sakti3 says its solid-state cells more than double the energy density of today\u2019s best Li-Ion batteries<\/em> &#8211; Scientific American<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2014\/09\/18\/sakti3-lithium-ion-battery\/\" target=\"_d\">Will this battery change everything? &#8211; Fortune<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, as the articles indicate, there have been lots of claims over the past several years of big advances in batteries in laboratories that were not\u00a0validated in real world conditions. Dyson, though, is\u00a0quite a serious R&amp;D outfit and I expect they have done their due diligence to determine\u00a0if this company has a better chance than the others to fulfill its ambitious claims.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a TEDx talk from last fall by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sakti3.com\/?page_id=48\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Marie Sastry<\/a>, co-founder and CEO of the Sakti and \u00a0Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sovRU7-bya8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dyson of vacuum cleaner fame is making a significant investment in the small Michigan company\u00a0Sakti, which is developing a solid-state lithium battery that they say could eventually store usable\u00a0energy\u00a0at $100 per kWh vs $500 per kWh for current lithium-ion batteries. Energy density is also said to be double that of current li-ion. (Haven&#8217;t seen any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: Dyson invests in Sakti lithium battery company<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2DG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10839,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10839","url_meta":{"origin":10148,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: 24M develops lower cost Li-Ion battery making + Videos: Elon Musk talks about Tesla and Gigafactory","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The MIT spinoff company\u00a024M\u00a0has unveiled a new approach to lithium battery manufacturing that it says can reduce the cost by a factor of two. 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