While there is a lot of truth "stretching" by promotors (notably including some on this forum), it is also true that the rate of development and R&D taking place on batteries has never been higher and what we now consider to be impossible performances will become common place in a relatively short time span. Then prices will reduce dramatically too.
It is indeed an exciting time.
Cheers,
Peter
Yuglamron said
01:14 PM Oct 19, 2019
I do know that one of Australia's Universities is looking at manufactured Crystals as a storage for electricity. I was told that early results were OK but not that promising, until one undergraduate said to boost the voltage being used to 120 Volts instead of the 12v they had been trialing. Results showed a standard car cranking size battery would give an electric car a range of a thousand K's. No information about charging time etc.
I heard the results were so good that the Uni is looking for a commercial partner to fund further research.
Info on the Dyson Electric car batteries was also very promising but info there has dried up.
Tony Bev said
01:56 PM Oct 19, 2019
Yuglamron wrote:
I do know that one of Australia's Universities is looking at manufactured Crystals as a storage for electricity. I was told that early results were OK but not that promising, until one undergraduate said to boost the voltage being used to 120 Volts instead of the 12v they had been trialing. Results showed a standard car cranking size battery would give an electric car a range of a thousand K's. No information about charging time etc.
I heard the results were so good that the Uni is looking for a commercial partner to fund further research.
Info on the Dyson Electric car batteries was also very promising but info there has dried up.
I had read somewhere, but do not have the info at my fingertips, that Dyson had decided not to carry on with the electric car, but would carry on with batteries for his own vacuum cleaners
Craig1 said
08:31 PM Oct 19, 2019
If it is branded Dyson, cost will be almost prohibitive
Tony LEE said
05:43 PM Oct 20, 2019
Dyson gave up because they figured out they would never have a commercially-viable product - not that it ever stopped them not only making weird stuff, but finding suckers to buy it too
Not sure where to post this, just in case it is a hoax
There is a claim, that there is a new car battery in the pipeline, which may last for one million miles
I assume it will be of interest to us Grey Nomads, if the chemistry trickles down to smaller deep cycle batteries for our RV's
Link below
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-may-soon-have-a-battery-that-can-last-a-million-miles/
It is indeed an exciting time.
Cheers,
Peter
I do know that one of Australia's Universities is looking at manufactured Crystals as a storage for electricity. I was told that early results were OK but not that promising, until one undergraduate said to boost the voltage being used to 120 Volts instead of the 12v they had been trialing. Results showed a standard car cranking size battery would give an electric car a range of a thousand K's. No information about charging time etc.
I heard the results were so good that the Uni is looking for a commercial partner to fund further research.
Info on the Dyson Electric car batteries was also very promising but info there has dried up.
I had read somewhere, but do not have the info at my fingertips, that Dyson had decided not to carry on with the electric car, but would carry on with batteries for his own vacuum cleaners