That article you referenced and the video are about different developments.
The video concerns a new EV that has been announced as being available right now in China with solid-state batteries. This is the first time I am aware of that any vehicle has entered series production with solid-state batteries. On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:12 PM EV List Lackey via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > <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 > -- *Paul Wujek* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220126/05c73a29/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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
