Posted on 07/24/2012 2:48:37 AM PDT by neverdem
Tesla is vaporware. They claim a lot of things.
I would fill up my Grand Cherokee with the 5.7L V8 about once a day on a cross country drive. 20 gallon tank.
If you have something like a VW Passat with the diesel and the 18.5 gallon tank, you would have about a 700 mile range, conservatively, before needing to fill up. And that’s with the EPA’s 40mpg highway number, which the VW’s tend to beat handily.
The new Nissan Altima would have excellent range as well with 38mpg highway and a 17.5 gallon tank.
Not sure what car would require 3 or 4 fill-ups a day to drive cross-country. Maybe a Ferrari?
Most common passenger cars would only need one fill-up a day as far as I can tell.
~300 miles for the top of the line model with the bigger battery.
~160 miles for the “cheap” model.
Clown car alert!
I did include the weasel words “up to.”
:^)
my van has gone through 700 “cycles” (fill ups)and has traveled close to 300,000 miles...
Get back to me when I can load 2000 lbs in to it and go 700 “cycles” with out more than 5% loss.
Oh.. and tow a 6000 lbs trailer when needed.
Gold cathodes? That’ll do wonders for the auto theft rate. At least the cretins would at least leave our bronze civic plaques and veterans’ graves bronze urns alone.
Cute car. I’m assuming they are sold in pairs - one for the left foot, one for the right foot.
I don’t see anything specific to a model of electric vehicle, the entire article appears to be about new battery technology.
They advertise the 0-60 time of the one with the smaller battery, and the range of the one with the giant battery...
What goes, “HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM......BANG! BANG! BANG!........HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?”
A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN A PRIUS...............
Reminds me of the air batteries used in hearing aids, except that these can be recharged.
Ain’t kidding that they’ll need something more practical than gold for an electrode. If they’re talking enough gold that they are starting to complain about the weight, forget it. You’d spend a million dollars on your batteries very quickly. Is gold required in this one for the sake of its electrochemical properties? Or because it is a corrosion proof, highly conductive metal? And the DMSO eats up the other electrode, and they’re saying it loses 5% of its capacity in 100 cycles, better than older batteries but still... given how often a car is used we have to do better here.
Still this could be a bark up a more practical tree, in time.
“I don’t see anything specific to a model of electric vehicle, the entire article appears to be about new battery technology.”
Who gives a rat’s *ss; what, do you own the web site or are you merely acting as police-officer-of-the-day?
Take a hike.
Batteries are all about using the best active materials configured for optimum ion transfer while preventing degradation of anode/cathode/electrolyte in the process —
simple. Oh, and it can’t “spontaneously dissociate” as we would say.
In practice, not so simple. Duracell spent in excess of $2.5million just to develop the “ultra” 9V coppertop. This gave you, the consumer, a big 14% more usable energy in that battery configuration alone.
Most battery technology change is incremental. Finding new materials that work together can be monumental. I applaud any steps forward in battery technology. The big boys - Duracell, Energizer, and Rayovac are too busy trying to survive cheap China/Korea product to put the $$$$’s into R&D like they used to.
It appears to me that you’re acting in that manner.
Do you eat with that mouth?
“Do you eat with that mouth?”
Ouch! I haven’t heard that retort since the third grade... you must be h*ll on the junior high debating society.
Sounds like you need to go lie down before you bust a vein.
Have a nice evening, Junior.
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