Thoughts?........................
650km = 404 miles
Free Republic’s never ending fascination with the e-Car bump. Get a golf cart and fugitabowtit.
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.
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?
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.
While that would help, you would also need an infrastructure of capacitor charging stations across the country or the advance is very limited.
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A simple accident could create a huge lightning bolt.
That is seriously scary.
Unless these batteries use less cobalt there will still be a shortage that could limit the number of batteries produced.
I’ll never own an elecrical car.
Really bad for the environment.
A capacitor is not a battery. A battery is not a capacitor.
Capacitors lose their charge over time.
Find another solution.
In before the first “Mr. Fusion” flux capacitor pic...
Hopefully, the electricity does not a have to be released just as fast as it’s charged at.
Imagine 0 to 165 in 1.8 seconds on icy roads.
Maybe with a charging cable about 2 inches in diameter, a rubber pad about 6 inches thick to stand on and a bomb disposable suit to wear??
That is interesting if you are into electric cars. But I live in a sparsely populated rural area where just about all of us are researching the best and most economical solar panels and storage batteries with the highest capacity so that being off-grid is no big deal-especially if TSHTF and takes down the grid in the near future-there would be no energy to spare for an electric car, so the person who didn’t own a conventional vehicle would be SOL here-and 4x4’s are the norm here, be they pickup or SUV, because of the rough/steep roads.
Another poster pointed out that there don’t appear to be any real environmental/energy saving advantages to electric cars-they are also too explosive for my liking...
When they figure a way to charge while driving on a main road and only use the battery on small secondary roads will it be truly an effective mode of transport.
If you have a six hour drive having to stop and charge would suck.
Here’s a Youtube video of what a somewhat large capacitor bank can do it uses a total of 56 480 joule capacitors making up the power supply for a total weight of 200 lbs and 27,000 joules at 400 volts. Notice what they are using to charge the capacitors !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAs9EHtKfVc