Posted on 01/18/2018 12:50:56 PM PST by Red Badger
Thoughts?........................
650km = 404 miles
Free Republic’s never ending fascination with the e-Car bump. Get a golf cart and fugitabowtit.
how many jiggawatts is required and at what frequency, kenneth?
Color me skeptical.
It's stupid. The average household has less than a 100 amp service. Where are you going to get 30 K Watt hours in a minute?
Great news if it works out. Storage seems the one big hurdle still.
Haven’t super capacitors been around for quite a while, and isn’t the problem with all of them catastrophic energy release if they are damaged?
I think this is gullible journalists taken in by technobabble.
Battery exaggerations aside, Tesla is soon to be swamped with head-on competitors that are better capitalized, have more experience, and aren’t so dependent on government.
China is going big into the electric vehicle market too.
Ever see a capacitor pop? Wonder what a supper cap pop would look like? Maybe like a power source in scifi movies or a dilythium crystal.
3 jiggawatts at a jigga hertz.................
The article says nothing about the storage capacity of whatever type battery/capacitor is used in the car.
One of the current Teslas claims a battery capacity of 200 kwh.
Charging a 200 kwh battery/capacitor in one minute requires a power of 60 x 200 kw.
12 megawatts.
Nominally, the power consumed by TWELVE THOUSAND houses.
Where’s the generating capacity for that going to come from?
A more skeptical view of Fisker claims:
-—Thoughts?——
Fisker cuts through the battery hype.
My thought is that the good minds are approaching the electric car problem bassackwards. The big seller electric car will be for low mile journeys within cities. The market will be commuting and trips to the grocery store.
Rather than the top of the line BMW or Lexus, the model should be the golf cart or the fork lift. Both are extremely successful vehicles, especially the electric forklifts used throughout American Industry.
Yale should be developing the car
Basic utility should be expanded until the price exceeds what is needed. At that point the manufacturers should back off the luxury and provide what is needed.
Sorry. But every entity in the universe must obey the laws of physics. Such a “supercharger” must transfer the amount of energy needed to move 3,000 pounds 300 miles. To do so would require a power withdrawal from the grid and storage in a battery of some sort. Please explain how such a feat is physically possible in under two minutes. It’s not.
Wireless transmission of power like Tesla envisioned.
And your garage will explode in 30 seconds.
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