Posted on 03/31/2021 9:27:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
As an emergency first responder in my earlier career, I wonder how this proposal deals with what would be needed when you have to cut off the roof of a car to free trapped occupants? This article doesn’t appear to address that.
You do not want to be running a K-saw through large, heavily charged battery arrays, power cords or anything carrying the amount of juice these things contain. It’s already a hazard with existing electric and hybrid vehicles.
I will be rich when I finish my AC battery and monopole magnets.
I would assume that this structural battery would be of low voltage and not as big a danger as the huge power packs and +400 volt systems are....................
They worked. Peol,People, just didn’t know how to use them properly. I do and I’m not telling
I fully admit to not having read the piece, and I don’t intend to. It just doesn’t interest me that much. However the first thing that came to my mind was if the battery is part of the structure of the vehicle what happens when the battery wears out?
I would also wonder what the repercussions of getting in a serious accident would be. People do wreck cars all the time
An electric car without battery weight would improve range by a lot.
Allow it to get a full charge in 3 minutes, or embed high efficiency solar into paint....and that would be a game changer. Build a home from this stuff...and it starts changing the world,
So do bullet holes short out the battery?...asking for a friend...and a parking lot fender bender ought to be spectacular...
Pretty soon, even the PAINT on the car will be a battery!...............
Let’s see an emergency responder take the jaws of life to such a car? They already have to be careful about cutting thru a power bus, but the entire vehicle, save maybe the glass, would now be off-limits.
Cheap and reliable energy will literally change the world. It empties the cities. It makes deserts live able. It desalinated water. It reduces transportation to the cost of the truck or vehicle.
Stuff like this will rule the late 21st century. We will be dead and gone...but that’s ok.
I want my flying car, dammit!...................
And where they gonna get all of that molasses?
I am assuming the structural battery will be low voltage and not the only battery or the primary battery......................
Excellent question!
Reading the article, it sounds like the opposite it true. Which is the whole idea of the concept to start with. It would not surprise me much if this aspect was not considered, or perhaps this article doesn’t want to mention that particular drawback. Or both.
Puerto Rico and Cuba?.................
Are charge times expanded or reduced? Would the gel battery concept improve the milliamp hours? If used in a plane, would electric storms from weather threaten the functionality?
The pulled it off and built a better mouse trap.
Lithium is no longer necessary.
The Red Chinese will not like that one bit, since they control the worlds supply lithium.
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