Batteries are key to clean energy — and they just got much cheaper

Grist
By Eric HolthausApr 3, 2019, 5:40 pm173 pts
Batteries are critical for our clean energy future. Luckily, their cost has dropped so low, we might be much closer to this future than we previously thought. In a little less than a year, the cost of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 35 percent, according to a new Bloomberg New Energy Finance report. Cheaper…

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