Steven Levy Quotes

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

I'm extremely happy the lithium-ion batteries helped communications around the world.

Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don't always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I'm traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

The electric vehicle is much quieter, simpler in construction, and more easily managed [than a gas automobile] however it can only run a limited distance without recharging.

You can't take my batteries out; I'm always on the go.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

What do batteries run on?

I am the expert on battery life.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.