I have doubts as to whether many of us will live to see such a commercial development.
Military first, I expect. Imagine the application for drones...
https://newatlas.com/technology/carbon-fiber-structural-battery-ev-range/
Those would be truly disposable cars.
Is this “right around the corner”?
Sharpee labeled lab coat leads me to remember the previous 9,000 similar technology announcements that go nowhere.
1, Energy resents being confined. The more densely you compact it, the more violence it will wreak if/when it escapes.
2. They’re still peddling the LIE that there’s anywhere on earth that has an electrical power generation and delivery infrastructure with sufficient capacity to spare that it could support a significant portion of ice ICE automobiles being replaced with battery-only EVs.
Yada yada yada, where is that cold fusion we were promised, a battery still has to be charged , where are those electrons coming from?
The previous milestone was reached in 2021 when the battery had an energy density of 24 watt-hours per kilogramme (Wh/kg), which means roughly 20 percent capacity of a comparable lithium-ion battery. Now it's up to 30 Wh/kg.
Please note they are claiming Wh/kg, NOT kWh/kg. Next to nothing. One kg of this battery will move your car perhaps 12 yards, while one kg of diesel fuel will move your car 12 miles.
Choose wisely.
(The above is not an exact calculation - as always in cases such as this one I will look at orders of magnitude instead of significant figures after the decimal point...you will either understand that or not.)
I have doubts as to whether many of us will live to see such a commercial development.
Military first, I expect. Imagine the application for drones...
I can see the usefulness in certain cases
But if you make it structural, what happens in a crash...
More bull feces from the EV industry. What happens when the battery no longer holds a charge? You throw away the whole vehicle? AND ... where the electricity comes from is still a big problem since batteries only store electricity produced somewhere else They’re a scam like the ethanol as a motor fuel fraud. Only positive effect of ethanol is to enrich big agricultural conglomerates like Archer Daniels Midlands at the expense of the motoring public.
The more energy the bigger the arc when it shorts.
“massless energy storage”
A laptop made entirely of photons! Wouldn’t it be so bright you couldn’t even look at it?
Another report of a battery breakthrough, none of which I have heard about again. Hope one or more makes it.
How ‘splody is a load bearing battery?