My dad has a popular mechanics do it yourself encyclopedia from the 1950s and it has several articles of new battery technologies in the works that will be available in a few months, just you wait and see.
For my entire life, new batteries have been just around the corner to replace lithium ion, every 12 to 18 months, one of these articles come out.
At this point, I will believe them when I see them on store shelves and not one second before.