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Presumably, by "performance" they mean voltage. We've yet to see a cell that offers higher voltage without massively sacrificing safety and cycle life. Maybe this secret new supplier with their superior construction (red shrink wrap of the gods, I guess) will smile upon us and fix all the challenges that the most reputable LiPo makers in the business have yet to conquer.

Right...

I'm eager to see the charts on these cells, and how many cycles they take before capacity and voltage start to suffer. Almost any LiPo can look good for the first 50 cycles. It's the next 250 I'm curious about. Of course companies like SMC make their money selling fractions of volts for huge markup, and benefit greatly when packs need to be replaced to regain that voltage edge, so I guess we'll see how their LiPo strategy plays out once these packs are put under the microscope.