Wait until they see my PBJ-inspired battery.
“Still at the rainbows and unicorn farts stage, but you never know ...”
Tesla S: 200 mph, 400+ mile range, 0-60 1.9 seconds. Quarter 9.2 seconds
Roadster: 250+ mph, 620 mile range, 0-60 1.9 seconds.
Present batteries have lifetimes much longer than quoted above.
Lithium-ion batteries are already going away.
A Tesla model X has a 100 kWH battery. It would take 100 kW of power for 60 minutes to recharge, ignoring losses.
To charge the same battery in 3 minutes would require 2 Megawatts of energy to be delivered to the battery!
I’m still waiting for Popular Mechanics to publish plans for a 200 mpg Pogue carburetor. It’ll be great!
and weighs less than 10 pounds, fits in the palm of your hand, and costs only $9.95 ... heard it all before, dozens of times over the last three decades ... none have ever happened ...
It still needs a more common and recyclable metal than lithium.
If they take the battery from my car, it should be shipped off and packaged into a new battery that will have similar performances. Otherwise, it’s ultimately a dead-end technology over the long term.
Sure it does. I’d like to see the panel and cable that will charge an 11kw battery in 3 minutes. The lights are going to dim across town when you plug it in.
“’We have achieved in the lab 5,000 to 10,000 charge cycles in a battery’s lifetime, compared with 2,000 to 3,000 charging cycles for even the best in class now, “
Tesla has demonstrated a battery that has gone 2,000 cycles with no degradation in capacity. Based on an expected life of 13,000 cycles they are projecting 100 years/ 1 million miles.
Musk says when your car wears out, you can get a new one and put your old battery in it!
Love my EV but none of this means anything if we don’t have the electicity to charge these vehicles. It’s gonna require gobs of fossil fuels to produce the electricity.
Let me know when they’ve figured out dilithium...
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They hope to scale up to a small pouch sized battery???
So it’ll run a Toni’s truck?
The child laborers in Africa are going to love this.
The Long Range Tesla Model 3, capable of over 300 miles of range, comes with a 75 kWh battery pack. 75 kilo watt hour charge in 1/6th hour would require a 450 kilo watt source.
Electrical power is given by P=VI
So a 220 volt circuit would need an amp rating of
I = 450,000 / 220 = 2045 amps
Well, no problemo.
What would be neat is watching transformers getting hit with those spikes. I’m sure the grid is robust enough.
But the real fun would be putting out a lithium metal fire from a fire hydrant.
If it really is efficient, makes electric cars more practical and more affordable, etc., the left will find a way to oppose it. The left only likes electric cars because it makes owning a personal car out of reach for many people.
Two chicoms using Harvard to get a grant to hand over tech to China for manufacturing.
Fusion is but 20 years away.
Jetson time just over the horizon.
Why start out with cars? If they can make a cell phone or a power drill that charges quickly and doesn’t expire after a couple of years, they can sell those and use thew proceeds to fund the car batteries.
Well!If that Battery last as long as its advertised that’s great but we still requier a massive amount of Electrical Power to charge up the Millions of potential Electrical vehicles the left wants to build.
They best start building a new generation of nuclear reactors soon or they can kiss the electric car goodbye.
Charge to last 20 years....
They said the first Covid jab would last forever and prevent the virus from infecting us.
Then, mostly less severe form of the illness and symptoms and only last two years, then one year, then under 6 months so “get the newly available booster.”
So now trust “science” and the government that the battery charge will last 20 years? We’ll see.
As I keep telling Y’all this stuff will work......
As soon as the Legislatures / parliaments etc. of all major nations pass repeals of the laws of physics.
I’ve got a fair amount of experience in building (small) Electric vehicles... EVERY type of battery chemistry / construction: the faster you charge it the shorter its life will be, and I don’t care if it is modeled after a BLT or a PBJ or a chef salad or beef stew.