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If we speak about what's available in laboratories, Lithium–sulfur battery gives around 550 Wh/kg with up to 1500 charge-discharge cycles ([1]). Not available commercially, but there are a few companies that try to commercialize them ([2], [3], [4]).

I would not bet that these batteries arrive fast enough to save Lillium.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery

2. https://lyten.com/

3. https://oxisenergy.com/

4. https://www.thebatt.com/news/lithium-sulfur-battery-startup-...



Yeah, I'm kind of assuming Li-S batteries won't work out. Sony announced in 2015 they were going to have commercial production in 2020. No news since then. Many others in that field have gone into bankruptcy, including one of those you link to.


Nice catch about one of the company being bankrupt.

I've taken a deeper look at Lyten and it does not seem to be a savior here either:

1. They need to produce graphene at scale and they don't yet have a solid plan to do that.

2. Lyten batteries are only 200 cycles.




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