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Better ebikes. But prolly even more cars!
safer, all round.
well, yeah but that thing's MASSIVE
well, yeah but that thing's MASSIVE
Ummm, I think you’ll find it’s been superimposed onto the background in Photoshop, it’s a matter of perspective. If you look at the label, it’s a 18560 cell, which is a regular flashlight battery.
Just saying, like.
Only on STW would a thread on something that is going to world energy markets significantly be treated as a joke.
The biggest argument against renewables has been that they are intermittent and storage is environmetally damaging/expensive/dirty. These batteries make local storage on a large scale viable.
Only on STW would a thread on something that is going to world energy markets significantly be treated as a joke.
I’m not treating it as a joke. I’m absolutely all for sustainable energy development, and I’m all for battery powered vehicles, the main problem I have at the present time is that there’s no way I could afford an EV, and while I would love an e-MTB, again the prices are way above anything I could afford. I’ve been following the development of alternative materials for actual battery construction, particularly sodium iron, but solid state Lithium, and a bunch of other technologies, all of which I have high hopes for, but they’re mostly in the early stages of development.
What I was treating as a joke was a battery that’s about the size of my thumb being referred to as ‘huge’.
Which I s’pose it could be if it’s for a phone…
Batteries are expected to be 1/2 the current cost.
for anyone who goes down the aftermarket e-bike kit, it would be nice to see some cooperation between these kit manufacturers and the mainstream brands. Just to guarantee that these kits actually fit without to much faffing
of course, all those e-scoots, skateboards, etc which are currently banned from public transport may receive a reprieve in e-sodium format.
Batteries are expected to be 1/2 the current cost.
unless there have been some recent changes I'm not sure if sodium batteries are necessarily a like for like swap with lithium - in that on a per amp/hr basis the sodium batteries will be bulkier / heavier. For lots of large scale applications like cars, home power storage, leisure type battery packs and so on thats not really an issue. But where theres a power to weight trade off - small/light things like phones, laptops and smart watches and so on sodium won't really be a replacement for lithium. I suspect that might be the case with bikes too. I'm sure it'll be great for deliveroo bikes but perhaps for MTBs less so. I don't think MTB riders would want the extra weight
Thanks for pointing that out; I’m no scientist, just someone with an interest in all sorts of technology, developing or otherwise, and while I’ve read lots about up and coming battery technology, I don’t know enough about them to know how they’re going to match up regarding storage capacity compared to physical size of cells and likely actual real-world run time in various types of utilisation.
I don’t think anyone does yet, it’s all speculation.
If recycling of lithium from used cells can be developed to reclaim a very high percentage of metal, that can go a long way to balancing the costs of mining the raw materials, and mining dissolved lithium in deep water from old mine workings like in Cornwall, and large salt flats could make a difference as well.
Doesn’t alter the fact that it’ll take a decent lottery win for me to ever think about buying an EV, or the sort of eMTB I’d want to ride. 🤷🏼♂️