Its a game changer. 500 km range with a 10 minute recharge time, puts it into drect cmpetition with gas powered vehicles.
I still will choose a Chevy V8 product over anything else for driving the vast distances across America.
Money line From rgread article:
“USING THE FORCE
Now that solid-state batteries allow for a 500km trip on a single charge, can recharge in 10 minutes, and have none of the safety concerns that plagued BYD and Tesla in their early years, the global development and adoption of EVs is likely to accelerate as rapidly as Tesla’s curvy new roadster.”
For me I’ll stick with my gasoline powered SUV for the foreseeable future, I can see the allure of EVs but right now it’s not for me...
But what i would be up for is the application in solar or independent power production.
I have a desire to build from the ground up a totally off grid home using alternative energy without giving up modern conveniences....
It’s possible but expensive to do that now.
I would like to have a rural isolate piece of land where you need a water well, septic tank because public utilities don’t exist...
So why not produce your own power and sell the excess back to the power company.
If you could dramatically increase the storage capacity of battery banks that can be recharged in a fraction of the time, it would be a total game changer off grid living.
Um....Ford!
Its a game changer. 500 km range with a 10 minute recharge time, puts it into direct competition with gas powered vehicles.
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While going up a 6% grade in a blizzard at minus 20 and the heater going full blast?
Before my cross country trip in which i was put in a position that if i break down i die i would definitely choose a Chevy V8 as my power source..
I do not think I'd want to stand next to an electrical cable transmitting that much electricity into one of these cells.
I don't think you could manage it even at 440v. Perhaps we have an EE here that can do the math of the actual energy requirements this would represent.