Hi,

In the event you missed it in the last newsletter, my blog this week talked about Detroit's Big Three (GM, Ford, Stellantis) planning to imminently replace nickel and cobalt in today's traction batteries, with either manganese or sulfur chemistries.

Following up from there, Murray's article, publishing a day later and tool late for my last newsletter, talks about Solid-state batteries emerging from labs and into real world traction battery applications. Not too heavy (pun intended) on the tech content, so feel free to have a look, even if you're brainfried for the day.

I've always been a big fan of optics, taking an informal minor in optical physics in university. TDK's "shapeshifter" approach to their design of a beam deflector would make the most hardcore Trekkie think about outfitting their ship's Navigational Deflector Dish with TDK's methodology. We've also included video goodness of their beam deflector in operation in my brief writeup.

enjoy,

-andyT