New Battery Tech?

Batteries. Who doesn't need batteries? Almost every product we use has some sort of battery in it. So when it comes to innovating technologies, the innovation of battery technology could be one of the most important ones. And I guess that age has arrived. How many of you have heard about silicon carbon? Apparently this is the frontier of battery technology and it is expected that mobile devices which could be any portable device is expected to get an exciting spec bump in its battery department. ---  [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/orange-9v-duracell-battery-NIDPm-ltVbA) --- Okay, let's not keep it any more vague. The reality at the moment. Is that China as usual, is pulling away from the rest of the world. A study showed that the average size of the smartphone battery in China was only around 100 milliamp hours bigger than the rest of the world. But now that deficit is up to around 500 milliamp hours. Now what shifted them towards this dramatic upgrade? It was the invention of silicon carbon. Apparently this technology is more efficient than the traditional lithium ion batteries. It can store more energy at the same size but then those older technologies. So when China actually figured this out, almost all Chinese phones started using silicon carbon batteries in their phones. Such as all the companies under Oppo and Xiaomi are all using silicon carbon batteries in their smartphones. This has allowed these companies to bring out phones that are much higher in their battery capacity and in turn they are providing a longer and more reliable battery life. And this has been very well received among consumers who are now pleased to have a battery that lasts longer while at the same time doesn't take much time to juice up. The question remains as to why the big companies across the globe, such as Apple, Google and Samsung are not implementing this technology into their phones. The question can have many answers. Are more speculative and some might be more realistic. A more speculative answer is that companies are afraid to step into this new technology as it will basically make their phones much more capable and they will not be able to sell further new phones to those the same customers of the future. This might help with their brand image but it might be bad for their brand revenue. But what I think is that these companies are still testing out this silicon carbon technology. But it is not yet proven to be sustainable in the long term. Even the Chinese phones have only just begun to use this. So we don't have any data points that are old enough to make an actual judgment as to how long these batteries last. All we have to go by is the company provided numbers which should be taken with a grain of salt. So I think even if proper silicon carbon integration is coming to the internationally renowned companies, it'll still take at least a couple more years of testing and simply observing the competition going forward. As that is a very important thing to consider before making such a huge shift in their supply chain materials and costs.