The problem with EV’s has been three-fold:
1. Range
2. Charging time
3. Infrastructure
At 600 miles, this solves problem 1.
At 9 minutes recharging time this solves problem 2.
Number 3 is the elephant in the room and the thorniest of problems.
Generating the power currently involves primarily coal and natural gas plants. Because physics is physics, you are shifting the burning of fuel from the car, where emissions is controlled, to the power plant, where it is less so. Because of inefficiencies in transmitting the power and converting it into motion, it takes more fuel to power an EV than it does an ICE. We do have about 20% of our power coming from renewable sources, but that doesn’t quite overcome the inefficiencies.
Distributing the power will require an upgrade to our grid with estimates of $2 to $5 trillion dollars required to enable 80% of our vehicles to be electric.
Converting gas stations to charging stations will be very costly. Unattended charging station has been prone to vandalism and are inherently unreliable. The solution is, of course, to have charging stations monitored, much like gas stations.
Until we get the infrastructure addressed widespread adoption of EVs is going to be hamstrung.
Interesting. So far, mostly talk-talk.
Will decide later if it belongs in the same bin as Rossi and his LENR gizmo.
Charging/Range Anxiety will be the world largest mental illness if the environmental nuts get their way
No mention of price or charging station specs. You probably need 1000 amps at 240 volts. Forget about charging at home.
If it wasn’t for new battery technologies no one would have a phone in their pocket.
“600-Mile Solid-State EV Battery...”
Gonna require a helluva wheel base.
Let’s not forget who built phones a few years ago that exploded and caught fire in people’s pockets prompting a Total recall.
600-Mile Solid-State EV Battery, Charges in 9 Minutes so why buy the current outdated EVs that they have now , EV industry destroying itself ,LOL
4 gallons of gas has more energy then the entire battery pack of a electric Ford F-150
SS batteries combined with solar can reduce your reliance and exposure to the utility company
So far I have not seen any serous specs on this so called battery. How much does it weigh? How does it do in the cold or heat? How durable. Just a few claims is all they are making.
That would be a hell of an amperage draw on existing chargin stations.
“.....Now, if you're thinking that all this sounds too good to be true, well, that's because it kinda is. There definitely is a catch, and that catch is the fact that these ultra-fast charging batteries require some pretty solid infrastructure for you to get the claimed nine-minute charge time.......”
Let me tell you, that there is no way that a “typical existing” home, residential neighborhood, can supply that kind of power in that time frame without major (and very expensive) electric upgrades. If you want to put in a commercial charging station for more than say 2 or 3 such battery vehicles, it will also take major and expensive electrical upgrades even at commercial customers. If you have an large Apartment complex (or Condo) and want to offer more than say 5 charging stations, same story.
Recently, in the “small existing condo” I live in I worked with the HOA to get electrical panel changes so that all condo owners could install one very small (30 Amp charging circuit or 24 Amp max charging output....new EV standard is now typically 40 to 50 Amps per charging station) per condo unit.
There is no way that massive implementation of such battery operated EV’s or PHEV’s can be implemented.
It explodes 10x harder.
When you have an actual production vehicle using it, and if it lives up to the claims, then I’ll raise an eyebrow, until then its just noise.
A race to see whether the E-Cat cold fusion generator or the SS battery hits the shelves first.