[Jonty30]

If 7,000 Watts/Kilogram are indeed realizeable, and the battery can be commercialized, it would definitely be a game changer.

I don't think most people would mind plugging this in daily, if it meant 300km trips were realizeable.

[Jonty30]

Also, aluminum would eliminate the problem of availability of copper.

[Yo-Yo]

For electric vehicles, the bottleneck isn’t how fast the batteries can be recharged, it’s how much power must be provided to the recharging station and how heavy and thick the recharging cables have to be in order to deliver tens of kilowatts of energy per minute to the vehicle.

[wildcard_redneck]

The Stone Age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.

[butlerweave]

Aluminium-ion batteries have a relatively short shelf life. oops

[D_Idaho]

Doesn’t aluminum require a lot of electricity to refine?

[eyeamok]

For reference, a typical coal-fired power station has a total output around 600 megawatts – so if 240 of these ultra fast charging cars happened to plug in at the same time, they'd put an instant load on the power grid equivalent to a whole power station

Yep, that's gonna work out well, oops the power went out again...

[Revel]

Yeah, but they cause Alzheimer’s.

[Pollard]

Whole lotta instances of the word “but” in that article.

[G Larry]

Does that mean an unintentional discharge would also be more catastrophic?

[taxcontrol]

Agree, this sounds interesting. I see the first widely commercial deployment “hurdle” as laptop batteries. If it can break into that market significantly, the next market would be the golf cart type application from a volume perspective. After that, replacement for existing gas/diesel batteries and then perhaps electric cars.

[BraveMan]

They should scale this up to 18650. Extrapolate those numbers . . .

[steve8714]

i fill my tank and go 400 miles. What is that, like 600 km?

[bitt]

P

[Candor7]

It will have to match my V8 truck motor and recharge in an hour or less.

They can stick their electric vehicles otherwise, no matter how expensive these commie a$$ hats in Washington make the gas.

[fella]

Here's a battery solution that has the problem that Alec Guinness had in "The Man In The White Suit" Nano Diamond Battery Comes with a radiation scare.

[Sequoyah101]

So what is the practical range of a typical EV auto in comfortable diving conditions equivalent to an IC auto? Meaning using an AC or heater as desired and driving as needed at speed and acceleration?