5 future battery technologies to make your phone last longer and charge faster

Whoever, or, rather, whichever team, as scientific discoveries today are rarely made by a single person, reinvents the battery, will become billionaire overnight is the common understanding of Wall Street analysts betting on breakthroughs in battery tech.

It won't be long before everything - from our cell phones, through our cars, to our houses - uses some sort of electricity storage that ought to be cheaper and much more efficient than what we have now. The current Li-ion technology has been good to us, but is nearing its limits, with potential about 30% above current levels at the maximum, and that's that, say researchers.