Posted on 01/10/2026 9:12:57 AM PST by BereanBrain
Times, they are a changing....Reminber i told you so...
I know! I know!
Let's strip mine the whole world for battery materials and cover what's left with solar panels so we can drive around between strip mines under the shade of solar panels and wind turbines!
That's so much better than using "fossil" fuels that aren't "fossil' and that don't require converting the entire planet to the service of EVs.
My first reaction too :-) Time will tell. And my money will stay in my pocket until Time starts blabbing. But, we've been waiting for that super battery that is only tens years away to be invented for the last two decades. Maybe this is the year.Ah, the unobtanium battery!
* All solid state battery
* Ultra high energy density: 400 W-h/kg
* Energy capacity: 125 W-h
* Ultra fast charging speeds.
* Full discharge or charge in 5 minutes
* 100k cycles regardless of charge / discharge profile
* Safe. No risk of fire or explosion when damaged. No risk of thermal runaway. Non-combustible, non-flammable.
* No dendrite formation
* Puncture resistant
* 99% capacity from -30C to 100C
* Price-parity with lithium batteries
* Zero nickel, cobal and lithium
I prefer nuclear power.
you are arguing a straw-man argument.
Certain EVs will come way down in price. I think even as soon as this year.
I also do not like the over-reliance on computers and tech in modern cars (ironic, as my employer makes EV, ICE and hybrid chips). I will compromise to get modern electronic ignition and fuel injection.
I worked for GM when Cadillac first came out with their electronic fuel injection. And, it was a disaster. "This is a splash in the pan and will never work! Give us carburetors!" This was the battle cry back then. Well, guess what - it wasn't just a splash in the pan.
Also, modern automotive drivetrain design has reached a point where your average owner can no longer service his own car. And, they were designed that way. This will also be a death blow to the piston engine automobile. Enter the EV with 100k mile warranties and about 36 drivetrain parts. All modular, and all easily serviceable.
Take a look a the efficiency of the first gasoline engine versus the ones today. Model 5 had maybe 20 HP, got 13-20 MPG (downhill). Now you can get 200-300 HP, ad 17-27 MPG. It took us 100 years to get there.
Now look at the speed of innovation in batteries and electric motors.
Average people don’t like change.
If somebody tried to regulate you into trading in your horse in 1910 for a auto, would you still be mad?“
Hell yes l would. You should be too. It’s called freedom of choice and people died for it. If you don’t mind being shoved into a golf cart move to Europe but leave us alone.
Too bad for the oversized electric golf cart fanbois that they let their liberal cult adopt EVs as a religious symbol.
I just bought a 2026 KIA Sportage Gas version and not the hybrid or plug in hybrid. who needs the DEI aggravation.
Anti-EV folks, watch this video
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I'm not anti-EV per se. But one problem with current EV technology is that, as a consequence of very poor public utility planning by constitutionally undefined political parties who probably aren't concerned about the well-being of the citizens, please consider the following.
Democratic Party-pirated California for example, has unthinkingly shown that California's power grid cannot handle the slow-charging EVs that are on the road now.
So while the new, fast-charging battery shown in the video is commendable evidence that the wrinkles are being ironed out of EV technology, it remains that California's Democratic Party-neglected power grid can't even handle today's slow-charging EV batteries.
We have had similar “breakthroughs” announced with great fanfare that never came to anything. I remain skeptical until this can be shown to work on a large scale.
“Now you can get 200-300 HP, ad 17-27 MPG. It took us 100 years to get there”
So much wrong with that point. They have had 1000 HP motors for almost 100 years. The rest of your points are just as easily shot down. If you want to live where you are stripped of choice you are in the wrong country.
Understandable.
I did watch the whole thing. Although they were short on technical details to protect their IP (Intellectual Property) what they were willing to disclose was pretty interesting.
Patent pending status does provide some protection, but it is prudent to hold off to actual issuance of the patent or require an NDA before disclosing. I've done the same on my own IP recently.
The secret sauce seems to be the solid electrolyte.
Given the discussion it sounds like a polymer with carbon nanotubes incorporated into the molecules. If that stuff is a little bit squishy and springy that would solve the contact to not perfectly smooth electrodes, and the thermal mismatch issues.
They assert there is no cobalt, nickel, or lithium in the cell.
I'm guessing they are using sodium for the active ion. Dirt cheap, and the slightly fatter atomic size helps keep it from penetrating the separator or growing dendrites in it.
My take and opinions, YMMV...
And likely that doesn’t account for what gets stolen for drug money.
I am talking about an economic vehicle that you drive that is mass produced.
How many thousands of miles do you get on a 1000 HP V8? Good luck with 50K and that’s with exotic metal doping. You probably know race cars get an engine teardown every few thousand miles. Not Economical....
The subject was EFFICIENCY not raw HP. (i.e. gallons per HP).
If you want/need a 1000 HP motor economy is not a main concern. EV’s are not the efficient nirvana the promoters claim. Producing sufficient electricity for millions of EV cars flips the calculous of comparison especially in cold climates. In the end it should be about choice but that is not good enough for the rats and the climate nazi’s.
“and so far they have all failed in the end.”
Tesla hasn’t failed.
They have bigger market cap than Toyota, GM, Ford and a few others combined.
Its one reason Musk is so rich.
“can be fully charged in five minutes”
Let’s see....
Assuming a battery of 100KWH (Tesla size). With 240 volts, you would need 100,000/240 = 417 amps for an hour. To do it in 5 minutes you would need 12 times that, or 5000 amps!!
If you use a voltage 4 times that which is what the superchargers use, you still would need to pump through 1250 amps.
You would need a cable the size of a fire hose, and I doubt the battery could handle being flooded with all those electrons in such a short time.
Or did I screw up somewhere?
EV’s will never be mainstream, except among the “look at me, I care” elitists.
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