The goal of the battery design was to be something suitable for electric cars, with similar specific energy (that’s watt-hours/kg) to Li-ion, less flammability, and lower cost.
If you mean “why was I designing a battery”, I guess I just like thinking about designs for new technology.
Why these particular pieces to achieve those goals? (Or, insofar as there were degrees of freedom where you just arbitrarily chose a piece, where were those degrees of freedom and what do the alternatives look like?)
What were your goals in designing this battery chemistry?
The goal of the battery design was to be something suitable for electric cars, with similar specific energy (that’s watt-hours/kg) to Li-ion, less flammability, and lower cost.
If you mean “why was I designing a battery”, I guess I just like thinking about designs for new technology.
Why these particular pieces to achieve those goals? (Or, insofar as there were degrees of freedom where you just arbitrarily chose a piece, where were those degrees of freedom and what do the alternatives look like?)
See this blog post for an initial answer.