This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

You’ve seen the headlines: This battery breakthrough is going to change the electric vehicle forever . And then … silence. You head to the local showroom, and the cars all kind of look and feel the same.

WIRED got annoyed about this phenomenon. So we talked to battery technology experts about what’s really going on in electric vehicle batteries. Which technologies are here? Which will be, probably, but aren’t yet, so don’t hold your breath? What’s probably not coming anytime soon?

“It’s easy to get excited about these things, because batteries are so complex,” said Pranav Jaswani, a technology analyst at IDTechEx, a market intelligence firm. “Many little things

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