You May Remember 2020 as the Year the ‘Super-Battery’ Became Real

Tesla, VW, QuantumScape, and GM are vying to produce the norm-shattering battery first

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
7 min readDec 22, 2020

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Photo: Martin Vorel/Creative Commons

After years of fitful development, doubt, miscues, and embarrassments, the humble battery seemed — in 2020, finally — to vault within reach of the promise that entrepreneurs since Thomas Edison and before have…

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Steve LeVine
The Mobilist

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.