Maybe those will drive the price of Reyna bucks up above $130 a pop.
Then all the chumps that invested in those grifts can finally sell their massive holdings.
ReynaBucks - if you were feeling REALLY stupid that morning.
Silver has nowhere to go but up.
It’s a much better investment than gold at this point in time.
“600 mile range” probably translates to optimum conditions like local driving speed. Probably closer to 400 mile range while driving at 75 - 80 mph. Still impressive IMHO.
Blah...blah...blah... been hearing about these silver based batteries for a year. If they are the real deal the increase in silver prices will make them less affordable than lithium batteries.
I just researched with several different search engines. They all provided the same basic response:
“”Yes, fast charging can cause unique stress on Solid-State Batteries (SSBs). While they are known for higher safety and energy density than standard lithium-ion, extreme fast charging (XFC) risks causing irreversible structural wear, microscopic cracks in the solid electrolyte, and increased internal resistance.””
so invest in silver!
Short answer: there's plenty of silver in the Earth's crust in raw terms, but nowhere near enough running through actual mines and reserves to cover the silver-carbon EV battery, AI chip and Solar industries at any real scale.
Silver makes up roughly 0.05–0.075 ppm of the Earth's crust by mass. With a crust mass around 2.5×1022 kg, that works out to something like 1.5–2 trillion tonnes of silver total — an astronomically large number compared to any conceivable industrial demand. There's no fundamental scarcity of silver atoms in the planet.
The catch is that almost all of that silver is spread so thinly through ordinary rock that it's not economically recoverable. What actually matters is proven reserves and mining capacity: global reserves are estimated around 530,000–640,000 tonnes, and annual mine production is only about 25,000–26,000 tonnes a year — mostly as a byproduct of copper, lead, and zinc mining, not primary silver mining.
Reports on the silver-carbon anode layer suggest roughly 1 kg of silver per 100 kWh EV pack. Retrofitting the ~1.5 billion vehicles on the road today would take about 1.5 million tonnes of silver, more than double current global reserves. Even limiting it to new production going forward — around 80–90 million vehicles a year — would require 80,000–90,000 tonnes of silver annually, roughly 3x current global mine output, which already has to cover electronics, solar panels, jewelry, and investment demand.
Silver is also used in chip packaging and bond wires for conductivity. The global semiconductor packaging industry, covering roughly 1.15 trillion chips a year — nearly all cheap and simple — consumes about 1,200–1,500 tonnes of silver annually, an average of around 1 mg per chip. That average is dragged down by trillions of small commodity chips; denser packages use far more, from 200–300 mg in a smartphone up to 1–3 g in a laptop, TV, or game console.
Large AI accelerator chips are dense, high-pin-count packages closer to that laptop-or-console end of the range. Applied to a stated production target of 100–200 billion AI chips a year, that puts silver demand at roughly 100,000–400,000 tonnes annually — several times more than the entire world currently mines in a year.
Add the two together and a single year of combined demand — 80,000–90,000 tonnes for EV batteries plus 100,000–400,000 tonnes for AI chips — could run from roughly 180,000 to nearly 500,000 tonnes, against a current annual mine supply of just 25,000–26,000 tonnes and total proven reserves of only 530,000–640,000 tonnes. Layer on solar power's own fast-growing silver appetite, and three major industries end up competing for a supply that can't expand quickly, since most of it comes as a byproduct of copper, lead, and zinc mining rather than from dedicated silver mines. Closing that gap would take a major, sustained expansion of silver mining and sharply higher prices, not just faster demand growth.
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Maybe those will drive the price of Reyna bucks up above $130 a pop.
Then all the chumps that invested in those grifts can finally sell their massive holdings.
ReynaBucks - if you were feeling REALLY stupid that morning.
The 900Wh/L is the only thing this battery has over existing fast charge LFP cells.
CATL has demonstrated in a production car not just a beta 3 min and 40 seconds charging 10-80% and 6 min to 100%. With 9 min from 10% to 100% at minus 30C. They have this pack in a 1000km range EV.
Game set match there is no other tech needed.
Even smaller cheaper 500km packs with 3 min charging eliminates the case entirely for larger packs.
I personally didn’t own a car or SUV before 2005 that has a longer than 300 mile range every single one had 250 ish miles before the fuel light turned on. With 5 min fuel stops it is irrelevant that you need to stop once every 3-4 hours in the seat. Only my modern era hybrid and turbo cars crossed the 400 mile range mark and it still didn’t matter with 5 min refuel.
CATL 3 min packs could be 200 mile packs and that would be 3 hours in the seat before a 3 min top up. This is as irrelevant as the 5 min refuel in past suvs. The fact that it’s in a 1000km EV is vast overkill a 300km pack 1/3 the size would with 3 min charging reach any seat busting.distance per day. Fast DC chargers are every 50 miles down major highways in the USA and in China they are closer than that. The tech is 3-4 min chargers using their GB/T plug that can do 1200V at 1000amps today right now at the retail level that’s actually faster than a 3 min top up in a car sized pack that’s semi truck level charging in the mandatory break times in an 8 hour on duty period level fill ups. You legally cannot drive diesel or not without a mandatory break outside the cab in a solid 8 hour window and after 10 you must stop and rest for ten hours as well.
Then all they have do is provide power ports on the outside of nuclear power plants to charge them in 9 minutes. Because the power grid sure can’t handle it.
They've got my attention.
...and only 20 years till production.
Fast charge is a great feature, can the grid handle hundreds of these vehicles charging at the same time drawing massive amounts of energy in such a short time?