Posted on 06/04/2013 2:09:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. The subject here was how much energy, in units of e.g. Watt-hours, or Joules, etc the battery can store. The article wasn’t clear, however, on whether that was an increase in energy/volume or energy/mass. Assuming the article meant that this technology would allow 5 times the energy volume and mass density, I would assume that it would allow 5 times the range for a same-sized (in terms of mass and volume) battery. A five-fold increase in battery energy density is a huge deal, btw.
That's something people always miss when they're talking about fast charging really high capacity batteries like these - massive currents that would require huge conductors. Presumably one could go to even higher voltages, although I think there's a limit to how high of voltages you want inside a car.
I think the Tesla is a beautiful car — think the same of the Fisker-Karma. Just don’t like the government subsidies [on both ends of the purchase] for a technology that very few people will pay for in its current state.
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