• Rinox@feddit.it
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    6 months ago

    I mean, I wouldn’t mind a car with “only” 200km range, but that can charge up to full in just 5 minutes. I use my car just for work 99% of the time anyway, the times I need to go somewhere further away I can easily stop midway to charge, get a coffee in the meantime and then be on my way.

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      6 months ago

      Unfortunately what’s shipping today seems it would offer maybe half that.

      For the batteries that were announced this past week, a larger-than-refrigerator-sized cabinet held a capacity of around 15kWh.

      Around half the energy density by mass of Lithium batteries, and in the order of a sixth of the density by volume.

      Now if only we could come up with a system where your car could be charged while stopped at traffic lights, we might be onto a winner (:

      Considering however that the price of sodium is around 1-2% that of lithium, I expect we will see significant R&D and those numbers quickly start to improve.