Posted on 12/03/2024 4:51:05 PM PST by Jonty30
Elon Musk Announces Tesla's NEW Aluminum-ion Super Battery with 15-min Charging
Elon Musk’s latest announcement could change everything about electric vehicles. Tesla is rolling out an all-new aluminum-ion battery that promises to be a game-changer, boasting rapid 15-minute charging times. The technology has been years in the making, but it could lead to a future where Elon Musk is quite literally, on top of the world. Imagine charging your electric car in just 15 minutes—Elon Musk's latest breakthrough could make it a reality and revolutionize the future of transportation as we know it. Curious to know how this innovation could reshape the EV landscape? Let’s dive into the details.
“I Normally just dump my spent fuel rods in the ditch beside the road.”
you must live somewhere like Mississippi or Arkansas or upper peninsula Michigan then ...
It’s almost certainly fake.
News and announcements from Tesla and Musk happen first on X.
that which instantly charges, instantly discharges ...
I understand that, but you’d think there’d be an engineering solution to that. Obviously, I’m not an engineer.
Apparently, the one tunnel it built has paid for itself 100x over.
There’s plenty of aluminum in the world (it’s 8% of earth’s crust by mass).
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Extracting it into elemental aluminum is a very energy-intensive process.
I don’t know if these batteries use elemental aluminum, but I bet the Al starts out that way. The good thing about aluminum is that it is easily recycled. (Don’t know about the battery compounds..)
Aluminum is one material that makes sense to recycle..
There’s plenty of aluminum in the world (it’s 8% of earth’s crust by mass).
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Extracting it into elemental aluminum is a very energy-intensive process.
I don’t know if these batteries use elemental aluminum, but I bet the Al starts out that way. The good thing about aluminum is that it is easily recycled. (Don’t know about the battery compounds..)
Aluminum is one material that makes sense to recycle..
“The expensive part is extracting aluminum from the ore, which uses the Bayer process I think.”
indeed ... a smelting process that’s driven entirely by electricity ... in fact, aluminum is often called solidified electricity for that reason, and is the metal that is the biggest energy-conversation win to recycle ...
> I don’t understand the problem with capacitors on this point, where they charge instantly… <
A capacitor will take a charge essentially instantly, but there’s still the question of how great that initial charge is. It could be a lot. It could be negligible. The initial amount depends on many factors: charging voltage and capacitor design, among others.
As time goes on, the capacitor will accept more and more charge until a max is reached.
The corrosion factor is a bottleneck for some time. If you want to experiment, hydrogen, if you want to get close to optimization, stick with fossil fuels. Batteries have a lot of unintentional expensive consequences in an economy that is petering out via massive debt and wage gaps.
If I can charge my car in 15 minutes in my garage, while doing other things, that's a win.
Being an “aluminum-ion” battery I’m just assuming it uses aluminum instead of lithium.
> It’s almost certainly fake. <
I’m beginning to think you’re right. At the beginning of the video, Musk talks about innovation. But he does not mention aluminum ion batteries at all.
So this could be an example of some YouTube guy cobbling a bunch of unrelated video clips together just to get more views.
All those who spent the big bucks on a Tesla are now butthurt. Their kids will laugh at their dated flintstone battery technology.
Hmmm...
What if you can charge the battery in 15 min, but it needs recharging every 20-miles of travel?
I’ll believe it when I actually see it. For now I’m putting this YouTube video down as clickbait.
First, we need to stop incurring waste storage fines. One of Trump's goals for 2025 should be to re-open Yucca Mountain. It's already complete, just need to staff it and start using it. Obama pulled the plug on it for political reasons, there is no safety concern or other scientific reason to argue against using it. Also, Americans are paying for the construction costs of that facility in their utility bills, every month. If we can eventually reprocess the stuff and benefit, so much the better.
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