Austin Electric

[fernando the frog]

Ex-Navy officer turned inventor signs a multi-million deal to produce his electric car battery that will take drivers 1,500 miles without needing to charge:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/F...

Too good to be true I think....

[Dave Hedgehog]

from what i have read the batteries are single use and need to be swapped over and then recycled

[Dirknights]

Not being familiar with the tech but once the reaction starts can the energy be stored or would there be a shelf life of an 'active' cell?

[fernando the frog]

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[fwaggie]

Dirknights said:

Not being familiar with the tech but once the reaction starts can the energy be stored or would there be a shelf life of an 'active' cell?

Its an electrolyte, so just like a normal lead acid or other acid batteries, the act of drawing current from it is what makes the reaction react. No current = no further reaction.

Saying that, it'll have internal resistance causing it to slowly discharge, so will have a finite shelf (or sitting in a car that's not driven) life.

But I think the chances of the infrastructure being put in place to make battery exchange possible in tens of thousands of places is next to none - the usual catch 22. But worse in this case, if a supermarket buys xxx batteries to swap over, if they get the estimated swap rate wrong they're stuck with those batteries on the shelf for a long time, slowly deteriorating, or they'll ship them to another store.

Edited by fwaggie on Tuesday 22 October 23:24

[Dave Hedgehog]

Dave Hedgehog said:

from what i have read the batteries are single use and need to be swapped over and then recycled

Transport evolved has just covered this tech, they are a single use battery, that does not sound very convenient or green

https://youtu.be/9HvstKvFss8

[MikeyC]

Thread in NP&E: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

lots of Q's answered