Battery Performance Quotes

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

I am the expert on battery life.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.

Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.