Comment on Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 9 months agoApparently, no one read the article. The primary application of this is for the military. The article is based on research being done by DARPA. For military use, lithium ion batteries have way too short of a life span and the charge times are too long.
ch00f@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why do people get hung up on the supercharging stop they would need to make 2-3 times a year and ignore the 40x a year they currently go out of their way to wait in line for cheap gas at Costco?
Also, there are Teslas with 250k miles and 90% range. The batteries can already outlast their vehicles, and finally, recycling batteries is possible and a lucrative business.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I have a minimum of eight ~500 miles drives I have to make in a year. I drive a plated and insured golf cart for most of my trips but theirs no way I’m tethering myself to a power cord when I can, with great confidence, pull over and fill my minivan in ~5 minutes wherever I’m at once I get to a quarter tank of fuel. I also end up with several trips a month where having a minivan is convenient as hell. I’d love to be able to reasonably jettison fossil fuels at some point so I don’t understand the criticism towards discovery, engineering, and evaluation of a broad spectrum of solutions and applications.