Our group has pioneered the first room-temperature hydride ion battery, a breakthrough in clean energy storage. By engineering a lanthanum hydride material with a nano-grained, defective structure, the team suppressed electron flow by five orders of magnitude while enabling rapid hydride ion movement. This enables a pure ion conductor for a solid-state battery operating from -40°C to 80°C, paving the way for a new class of all-solid-state energy storage devices. (Nature 2023, 10.1038/s41586-023-05815-0)