Batteries: Big Oil’s big challenge

Our future is electric and must be, if we’re to move away from fossil fuels. But that transition relies on a technology that is centuries old –– the battery. A current contest spanning the globe is underway to dominate the technology that will power the future.

Tsjisse Talsma for Quartz

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