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AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium
(www.newscientist.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The article says they were searching for new solid electrolytes... which are meant to be incredibly thin, so they contribute a negligible amount to the total lithium need. It's far more important to look for ones with a high conductivity to compete with liquid electrolytes.