Posted on 11/27/2019 11:25:16 AM PST by Red Badger
Ping!......................
Sounds too good to be true
Yes, but they aren’t they types to hype crap....................
If their battery is so great, then the energy world will be turned upside down..............
[[Nikola’s battery electric trucks could now drive 800 miles fully loaded between charges]]
When time is money- how does this translate to good trucking sense if they have to have hours of downtime waiting for it to charge?
No comment of safety? Is it more likely to explode, catch on fire or go exothermic or less likely than Li ion?
I drove to DeFuniak Springs this morning. I passed by the Tesla charging station and noticed 4 cars being charged.
That is the most I have ever seen at one time. Maybe there is a future for battery cars.
2,000 cycles is three years of use, give or take a few months.
My hand is firmly on my wallet.
Wow. They hired a lot of PhDs and STILL managed to come up with a good product.
No engineering details, color me skeptical
Good times are coming!
“When time is money- how does this translate to good trucking sense if they have to have hours of downtime waiting for it to charge?”
There is a reason they make sleeping quarters in the cabs.
A little help please......
What exatly is a “free-standing electrode automotive battery”
“This month, Nikola entered into a letter of intent to acquire a world-class battery engineering team to help bring the new battery to pre-production. Through this acquisition, Nikola will add 15 PhDs and five master’s degree team members. Due to confidentiality and security reasons, additional details of the acquisition will not be disclosed until Nikola World 2020.”
The emphasis of “PhDs and master’s degree(s)” is a bit troubling. Nothing is said of actual substance that these 20 people have to bring to the table, including the ability to convince potential stockholders to invest their capital with a convincing, profit-making portfolio. It sounds more likely they are trying to convince government oppressors to fleece their civilians of trillions of dollars instead of advancing a technology that is always better when done in the private sector.
For that, I call BS on this, and put this in the same category as “If you like your doctor or health plan, you can keep them” lies.
YMMV...................
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.8b09746
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsaem.8b00388?src=recsys
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/ee/c8ee01642a#!divAbstract
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013468617314494
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