Japan's Nissan plans 'game changing' electric car batteries

techxplore.com ^ | April 8, 2022 | Yuri Kageyama

[NoLibZone]

I’ll really miss transmission shops, oil changes, timing belt issues, valve issues etc. etc.

[struggle]

Knowing Nissan, the battery will do jack squat.

[BenLurkin]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Can they build “game changing” power plants, too?

[woodbutcher1963]

Maybe, but Toyota, Volkswagen and Panasonic are investigating big-time on this solid state battery technology.
Whoever patents it first will make potentially a lot of money.
Right up to the Chinese stealing the technology and mass producing.

[SERKIT]

So what is the underlying chemistry?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Can they build “game changing” power plants, too?

Why would they need power plants?

Everybody knows electricity is magic.

[upchuck]

Somebody ping me when there is a press release showing this battery can get more than 100 miles per charge.

Real success is 200 miles plus.

[markomalley]

Knowing Nissan, the battery will do jack squat.

My thoughts exactly. What was the battery capacity of the Leaf? 35 miles per charge or some such?

[immadashell]

If the battery won’t go 500 miles per charge I won’t even think about it.

[Fido969]

I can’t stand the description “game changer”. Maybe I thought it was OK the first hundred times I heard it.

[IYAS9YAS]

So what is the underlying chemistry?

It's made of unobtainium.

[hanamizu]

Real success is 200 miles plus.

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Plus being able to ‘fill er up’ in five minutes.

[FreeReign]

So what is the underlying chemistry?

Well, it's...it's the "testing of various materials, Corporate Vice President Kazuhiro Doi told reporters".

Sounds promising, huh?

[DoughtyOne]

These articles remind me of Popular Science, all those great
ideas they sold us on over the years, that never came to pass.

Some of them did, but not as many as I would have expected or
liked to have.

[Carriage Hill]

When do you think they’ll change their corp name back to Datsun?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Panasonic has some regular battery mojo. I had a 2005 Honda 2000S and the battery lasted to 2015. In New Mexico 3 years is the rule. I tried to find an exact replacement, but it’s a Japanese only battery that was imported with the car.

[Who is John Galt?]

struggle: "Knowing Nissan, the battery will do jack squat."

markomalley: "My thoughts exactly. What was the battery capacity of the Leaf? 35 miles per charge or some such?"

I don't know about their batteries, but I've owned a couple of their trucks (and one old Z-car ;>) which weren't bad. IIRC, the Japanese company you don't want building your car parts is Takata, of "exploding-parts-that-kill-you" fame...

[SoCal Pubbie]

Their corporate name was never Datsun. The original name was Dat Motorcar Company in 1931. They made a car model called Datson. Nissan took over Dat in 1934 and changed the car’s name to Datsun. Eventually that became the brand name in certain countries, including the US.

[curious7]

As soon as they rehire that German advertising firm that gave them the Datsun name last century. (j/k)