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A 9-minute charge time to reach 80% capacity on a 600 mile range battery?
I’ll believe it when I see it.
When can I get a small one to eliminate the “ceiling chirp”?
estimates, predictions, models, projections. In other words: vaporware.
This battery “announcement” is for a battery that doesn’t even exist. Because if it was a real battery, they would have real data on it. They would have real examples of recharge times from real battery chargers, hot and cold degradation, number of recharge cycles and the degradation curve. But they don’t.
I put this in the monthly battery breakthrough folder. Battery technology breakthroughs are announced nearly every month, except the don’t happen.
Even at 9 minutes, it’s gonna be too long in many places where lines will be very long waiting to r3charge- people get pissed off over taking 5 minutes to top off a tank of gas ⛽️ and lines are already long at regular gas stations- adding to the time will just cause all kings of anger it seems. Yeah, 9 minutes is better than 1/2 to recharge, but tempers are gonna flare terribly
Also, is that 600 miles WITHOUT running anything like air conditioner or heater? Gets mighty hot in places, and freezing cold in other places.
Another battery built up layer by layer at near the atomic level. They work great but are handmade and VERY expensive.
600 miles? That’s huge!
High cost of everything when it comes to EV’s no sale sign still lit.
Feds pimping money isn’t even saving them.
It will be a true success if it doesn’t need a subsidy.
Back in the late ‘90s, EPA EnergyStar standards for PC monitors assumed CRT tubes. Except for expensive laptops and small LCD monitors sold to enthusiasts, those were the standard. Backlit LCD monitors and LED monitors were a sliver because of cost, and weren’t generally available in large sizes.
They did and do use a small fraction of the energy, were lighter, don’t get burn-in, and take up much less room. When the price came down, they replaced tubes without regulations to jump-start the market.
Man, that’s a BIG BATTERY!
“Challenges of scaling production and cost remain”
indeed ... the EXACT same stumbling blocks of EVERY new magic battery technology touted for the last 50 years ... followed by “more money is needed for research and development” ...
turns out though, after 50 years, LIon and lead/acid are STILL pretty much the only high-capacity battery technologies in common usage ...
bttt