Tesla shying away from “Blood Cobalt.”
Iron Edison batteries.
They get better with age, can't be damaged by over or under charge and have been proven for over 100 years.
Actually, Lithium Iron batteries are a much more recent development than Lithium Cobalt batteries... By more than a decade.
Pink Eveready Bunny:
I told you. The old school ways keep going and going and going....
With nanotechnology improvements, we’re going to end up back to the future with the nickel-iron battery that Edison invented in 1901 which is durable, safe, and lasts for decades.
I said in an earlier post that Tesla’s goal of 500,000 miles before EV batteries failed sounded unrealistic, but after reading about the lithium iron phosphate batteries in wikipedia, that lifetime sounds realistic.
I’ve got an electric car design that doesn’t require any rare earth minerals or precious metals for batteries at all!
We’ll just put a giant flywheel in the trunk to store all the energy. Now the steering might be affected a bit, but that’s a small price to pay for “going green”!
Now THAT IS how to post an article ladies and gentlemen!! Nice Excerpt! Thank you George!
and good article too