On 26 Jan 2022 at 7:58, Paul Wujek via EV wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKqpZG-s_ac
Sorry, I'm not that keen on sitting through a video clip when I can read something in 1/10 the time, so I found this: https://news.metal.com/newscontent/101690892/Here-comes-the-solid-state- battery-The-lithium-giant-says-it-can-be-mass-produced-and-loaded-at-any- time/ or https://v.gd/S0Z3FF The translation from the Chinese isn't great. I can grok most of it but have no idea what on earth this is supposed to mean: "can be ... loaded at any time" "it should not be mass production in the short term. BYD does not need to fight for eyeballs like other car companies, but pursues technologies that can be popularized on a large scale at low cost and products that bring tangible benefits to consumers." I hope someone more familiar with this stuff can comment. The news piece makes rahter extravagant claims for specific energy. Exactly what ARE "solid state" batteries, and what *demonstrable* advantages do they offer? I tend to be pretty skeptical about alleged battery developments. In 55 years of following EVs I've read of a LOT of "revolutionary" batteries that were going to give us EVs that could drive to the moon on one charge. Most of them never left the lab. Typically they stalled because they couldn't be scaled up from small, low capacity models, because they couldn't be produced economically, or because the developers were nothing more than shysters looking for gullible investors. Sometimes all of the above. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Just How Bad is Your Job, #13: Philosophy of Life. Two statements follow. Check the one that most closely describes your current outlook. ( ) Misery loves company. ( ) The company loves misery. -- Matt Groening, "Work is Hell" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
