Holy moly, what a clickbait title. It absolutely does not do justice to the work of the researchers.

Lithium-metal and anode-less batteries are nothing new, the idea has been around for decades. The concerns with this architecture have always been about poor cycle life and the high risk of battery fire, given that pure lithium is extraordinarily reactive. It's commonly thought that it could only ever be commercialised in a solid-state electrolyte battery for this reason, which is to say, anode-less batteries are nowhere near mass production. The end of this decade is the soonest we could hope to see it used in cars - but that's still a very optimistic timeline.

The research clearly focusses on the cycle life of this battery design. So why not write the article about that?