{"id":229492,"date":"2021-04-18T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229492"},"modified":"2021-04-18T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T07:51:16","slug":"lithium-battery-costs-have-fallen-by-98-in-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229492","title":{"rendered":"Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/img\/b\/1280\/755\/90\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2021\/03\/articles\/main\/20210403_woc382.png\"><\/p>\n<p>BATTERIES HAVE come a long way in 30 years. In the early 1990s the storage capacity needed to power a house for a day would have cost about $75,000. The cells themselves would have weighed 113kg (250lbs) and taken up as much space as a beer keg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/graphic-detail\/2021\/03\/31\/lithium-battery-costs-have-fallen-by-98-in-three-decades\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATTERIES HAVE come a long way in 30 years. In the early 1990s the storage capacity needed to power a house for a day would have cost about $75,000. The cells themselves would have weighed 113kg (250lbs) and taken up as much space as a beer keg. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-229492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-pocket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229493,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229492\/revisions\/229493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}