[rurban]

It's not new battery material. It's just a better anode coating with a graphene layer, only a normal lithium-ion battery. Same strategy as most improvements there. Means time to market could be much faster.

Problem is that this graphene layer is extremely thin, one atom. Mass-production, what they claim to do, would be a killer app for much more than just batteries, but for batteries it's the easiest win.