New Batteries

Hold the Presses. We might have the battery breakthrough long needed to make electric cars a realistic alternative to gas powered. A battery that can be charged to 80% capacity in one minute.

Now first off, there are some problems you will not see mentioned in that article. One is the amount of power that has to be delivered in order to manage this feat on the level of a power system for a car. If current charge techniques are your garden hose... then what is needed to accomplish this feat is a Fire Hydrant, possibly more than one. The current grid is not designed to deliver these loads on the level that would be needed if tomorrow every car needed this kind of delivery method.

However there is not a real technical difficulty in providing it. The flip side of these bad boys taking that much power in that quick is that they can dish it out that fast as well. So put a bank of them at a gas station trickle charging (by comparison) from the grid and zapping cars as they come in. In other words these blur the line between capacitors and batteries... an amazing combination of energy application ability formally only possessed by none other than hydro carbon fuels. Now if they can start making the energy density of these batteries approach that of gas ( still no where NEAR close) then gas cars of today are toast. Frankly I think just this development is enough to drive them to extinction.

If this is real. If they are not overestimating what they can do. AND IF.... IF, they are cost effective by comparison to gas cars. Then this is beyond huge. It WILL change the world in less than a decade. You could put these in an EV-1 (if any were left) and, with adequate power delivery stations available, drive it across country like a regular car with the same (possible more) occasional BRIEF refueling periods. The problem of covering distance due to recharging times is perhaps the single biggest problem facing a purely electrical car. This ladies and gentlemen solves that problem.

If you need it described to you in practical terms try this... With these claims it is now possible to use an electric car like a gas car with a 1/4 - 1/2 sized gas tank.