Battery company AMBRI, backed by Bill Gates fails delivery...

Battery company AMBRI, backed by Bill Gates fails delivery schedule providing more opportunities to tested products from Gildemeister Energy Storage

Based on technology originally developed at MIT by materials scientist Donald Sadoway and his student David Bradwell, now Ambri’s CTO, Ambri’s system uses two liquid metals as electrodes, separated by a liquid-salt electrolyte (see “Ambri’s Better Grid Battery”). Backed by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, and French oil major Total, among others, Ambri had planned to ramp up production and begin delivering prototypes by late 2015 or early 2016. Now that time line has been pushed back, underlining the challenge of producing an exotic battery technology at the scale required. Giudice says the company has money in hand for at least two years, and it hopes to deliver products well within that time frame. But it “depends on getting the seals working the way we need them to,” he says.

BTW, Bill Gates is very interested in storage technology.