Engineers have had this battery about 5 years now and it works as advertised, .... however, they can't make it in sizes much larger than a quarter. The largest auto that you could power it with is the size of a Hot Wheels.
They are either full of crap or it’s very dangerous. Transfer of enough energy to power anything of any size for very long is going to take a lot longer than “seconds”, if the transfer is stable.
Great, but how do you extinguish them when they catch on fire?
Elemental sodium, like phosphorous, doesn’t play well with water, IIRC.
Still doesn’t answer the question of where the power is going to come from. Regardless of how fast it charges, the amount of power remains the same and in fact faster charging would put even more of a strain
But sodium is heavier so is this really appropriate for mobile applications?
Yeah with magic electric power?????
Brown out/Blackouts
Fast charging takes wattage
Charging a vehicle which is twice as expensive, and twice as heavy, is not feasible, no matter how quickly it is accomplished.
Of course, there’s still the fire danger, but Big Brother doesn’t care.
“Could” is meaningless in the real world.
These guys think you could re-charge an electric vehicle in seconds? Heck, let’s give them 5 minutes. Now calculate the size of the power infrastructure needed to deliver that much energy in 5 minutes. Now let’s visualize putting it every place there is now a conventional gas station.
Hahahahahaha!
Nope. Still not buying one.
Since everything they replace something bad with turns out to be even worse, no way am I taking any chances.
Bull crap.
What’s the big deal? Current EVs recharge in seconds, already. 15000 to 16000 or so, but seconds are seconds… 🙄
LOL. Do these people even think for just a second or two about the implications of their claims? What kind of connection from the grid are you going to have to have if you’re going to be able do dump that much power through an outlet “in seconds”?
Charging future EVs could take seconds
aka lighting the fuse
The elephant in the room when it comes to EV’s is the dirty batteries they use and if they can be recycled cheaply.
If they can make them to where they charge in a few minutes, say the same time it takes to fuel up a vehicle with gas or diesel today, then a gradual organic phasing in of these vehicles makes sense.
What doesn’t make sense is to ban ICE vehicles. That will take generations. Many places around the world don’t have full time electricity now so they will likely be using ICE vehicles well into the 22nd century.