“The most exciting Apple announcement this week wasn’t a $10,000 smartwatch or a new, gold-colored MacBook,” Christina Bonnington reports for Wired. “It was a battery technology that could have major implications for how long all future Apple products last between charges—including your next iPhone.”
“Apple’s battery breakthrough is already paying dividends in Apple’s super-slender MacBook. In order to achieve that 13.1 mm silhouette—and still deliver reasonable battery life while powering a 12-inch Retina display—the company’s engineers had to develop something entirely new,” Bonnington reports. “What they came up with is a terraced battery cell, a unique design that adds 35 percent more battery capacity than would otherwise be achievable.”
Bonnington reports, “‘It might seem like a low level innovation, but it’s an incredibly clever design,’ Jeff Chamberlain, executive director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, told WIRED. In fact, it’s a whole new way of thinking about batteries.”
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MacDailyNews Take: And this technology will migrate from MacBook throughout future battery-powered Apple products!
