Posted on 09/27/2024 5:35:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
We have lots of Teslas here, but I’ve never seen one burning............
Iron KOH. The company that recently tried to commercialize them, Iron Edison Battery Company, went tango uniform a year ago.
From your screen name I think you have...
Haha. Not really. People just think I have a familiar face. They never know me, they just think they do. Maybe we met in an alternate life? LOL.
No they haven’t. They’ve been looking for a much more ENERGY DENSE battery. There are at least four major conceptual problems with EVs: 1. Energy density - a 700 lb 70 kWh EV battery holds about the same energy as 2 gallons and of gas (14 lb). 2. Charging time - pumping 70 kWh into an EV battery takes a long time dependent of course on the available power of the charger and grid. No amount of tinkering with battery chemistry will overcome this problem. 3. Power availability - where does this power come from? The eco nut jobs insist on wind and solar. These are not only intermittent and unreliable. They are extremely capital intensive for the low amount of power generated per dollar spent. The transportation sector of the US economy uses the equivalent power of all of the nuclear plants in the USA combined. Wind and solar cannot match this. 4. COST - EV batteries are extremely expensive and have a relatively short life. Once the virtue signaling morons have all bought theirs, normal car buyers are not interested in buying an expensive impractical vehicle that has a depreciation curve like a rock dropped off a cliff. There are numerous other issues that the fan boys/ shills try to lie away, but these alone should be enough to turn any sensible buyer away.
Every couple years I notice some “breakthrough” which will finally make batteries practical....and a couple years more go by with no change.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
You will see it about 10 years after fusion power becomes commercially viable.
I’ve long said that what is learned/discovered/developed there in the daytime is in Beijing by nightfall.
They are shaking the money tree to see if some more grants drop out.
It took from 1991 till now to bring lithium ion to the world charging cells they are today. Your smartphone cannot exist without the third generation lithium ion cells inside it. A pack the size of a credit card and only twice as thick with triple the energy of the last generation of nickel metal hydride cells the Li replaced. Same for tablets and laptops could not exist in the form factor they do without lithium ion cells no other tech has the energy density nor cycle life.
Incremental improvements have doubled lithium ion cell density and extended the cycle life from 500 to well over 10000 for some cathodes which is the important electrode. Anode can be carbon of many forms or silicon or titanium or now niobium. Taking the nickel, cobalt out and putting in cheap as dirt Iron and Chlorine at 1% of the cost is a huge deal. EVs are only 6% of the total lithium ion cell market the other 96% make modern life possible so anything that makes them cheaper and opens up the supply chain is a win for the whole planet.
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