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by johnday 1020 days ago
Technically speaking, batteries do get lighter when discharged! But not in any useful way, and entirely unlike the situation with aeroplanes, of course.
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Do they technically actually do get lighter? Since it's a solid-state battery, nothing is actually moving outside the battery (the ions move from one electrode to another, but they remain within the battery while charging/discharging) and because of law of conservation of mass, the weight should stay the same.

But I'm no battery expert, maybe someone knows better.

E = MC^2

In special relativity, the conservation of mass does not apply if the system is open and energy escapes.