Save you the click - Apple’s not making it and it’s not solid state.

The two black blocks in that image are small tunnels that use vibrating membranes instead of fans to push air through like a regular cooling system, they just choose to call them solid state and ‘chips’ for marketing reasons.

The inventor is touting it to all OEM’s but none have big yet, so he’s taken a Dremel to a MacBook Air and fitted them himself to show it can work.

There’s no third party expert analysis in the article. There’s nothing to say it’s bullshit, but the creator’s actions feel very snake oil

Tbh this is actually more good news than bad. Solid state battery tech - if it lives up to even 70% of the hype - is the shift in battery tech that actually makes ev’s realistic for a lot of the people yet to adopt them. 10k cars is nothing to sniff at and is a huge investment. It’s all very well to have prototypes in labs and concept cars, but it’s only once businesses start selling them to the public that the real investment and rapid development happens.

So yeah, you can’t all buy one next year, but it’s significant they can be bought

Tbh the tow capacity of this thing is kinda irrelevant

I gotta say though we have a Honda with that CVT issue and it’s been the case of ‘well, no point replacing it now, we’ll just run the car until it dies and scrap it’ for 200k km’s lol. It shudders but it won’t die

Well now people are gonna hold on to their typo motherboards for years assuming it’s gonna be worth so much money.

Because people always want 10 year old motherboards

Significantly different or patent-avoidingly different?

Tbh the article reads like it’s just so they’re not compatible with Apple, which sounds like avoiding the cost of Apple licensing