"...and traffic continues to flow well
on the beltway and inroads, some delays
from the South, but overall...uh oh, looks
like we may have a thermal runaway inbound
on the North Loop, all lanes assumed closed."
Do any of the technologies that are being examined reduce power output at higher temperatures? Thermal runaway can be bad news, and the higher the energy density of a storage device, the worse news it is.
What I want to know, is do they retain efficiency and output at -40 degrees? I hate changing a tire or chaining up in a blizzard at night with a dying flashlight...
"...and traffic continues to flow well
on the beltway and inroads, some delays
from the South, but overall...uh oh, looks
like we may have a thermal runaway inbound
on the North Loop, all lanes assumed closed."
The device being developed at MIT's Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems isn't a battery, but a capacitor