New aluminum radical battery promises more sustainable power

Molten salts, so hot right now.

Being non-rechargeable is not necessarily a problem. They could be recycled to recover the aluminum, although that did require a lot of electricity so recycling would probably require shipping the spent batteries to some place with cheap electricity. The batteries essentially turn the aluminum back to ore, and recycling consists of smelting that so probably would be done in the same areas where people put their aluminum smelting operations.

I remember that one of the companies working on those demoed an EV with one that had something like 1000 miles of range, with the idea that the battery was designed for fast swapping so that a battery swap would not take much longer than filling up the tank on an ICE.

For a lot of places where the grid isn't up to handling it if too many people get rechargeable EVs that could provide a viable way to get off of ICE.