Non rechargeable so basically you give up the benefits of a rechargeable battery and the convenience of tens of thousands of gas stations.
I’m sure there are some really good uses for this technology but cars may not be one of them.
Still a function of cost for me.
$10 for a thousand miles? I’ll order the units in advance.
$1,000 for a thousand miles? I keep using gasoline for my commute.
I don’t see it ever used for pulling the trailer.
It will be used as a range extender/back up battery.
You use lithium ion battery for your every day commute daily driving. 100-250 miles of range.
At 2 AM 30 miles from home you realize you have 1 mile left of lithium ion battery range. Aluminum air battery kicks in.
You are coming home form Las Vegas to Los Angeles. You want to stop half way to recharge. You notice a 1 hr line to get to the charging unit. You blow by it and when your lithium ion battery back goes empty you switch to aluminum air.
Every 1-5 years you go in and swap your old aluminum air non-rechargeable battery for a new one.
They are saying comparable to gas. So ~ $0.10 per mile cost retail.
The only benefits to rechargables is recharging in a parking lot from large solar arrays nearby or charging with nuclear overnight. What will happen with rechargables on the highway is removing the old battery and inserting a new one. That's the only those will work on the fly and this would be no different.
That said, it's totally uneconomical just like current EVs.