Comments on: 100-Fold Lithium-ion Battery Breakthrough

By: Adriaan

Adriaan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:45:53 +0000

Hi from the other side of the world down South In Africa.

We have grid problems…. Working on it to fix it must be done.

Running with EV is very tempting, peak shaving recharging at night etc. All makes huge sense.

We also run with “trailers” behind our cars, for baggage etc. Why not have a trailer with dieselgen? Hook it up when you plan a long trip. Run the short ones on pure electric charge truely “VOLTAGE” and the longer ones passing the gas (ala JackSparrow)

Last blurb:
5 ton AirCONs… Whow you have sun… what about changing to solar powered aircons??
Checkout absorption chillers fed by hot water from solar heaters and a LOT of load dissapears from the grid!!!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:12:47 +0000

This study has been thoroughly discredited in this sharp rebuke by Goodenough:

K. Zaghib, J.B. Goodenough, A. Mauger, C. Julien, “Unsupported claims of ultrafast charging of LiFePO4 Li-ion batteries,” Journal of Power Sources, Volume 194, Issue 2, 1 December 2009, Pages 1021-1023, ISSN 0378-7753, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.05.043.

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:38:15 +0000

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By: Gmanzz

Gmanzz — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:16:08 +0000

For the people complaining about fast charging at home. Do you gas up your car at home? Nope. Leave the fast chargers at the stations. I dont mind slow charging at home while Im sleeping OFF PEAK hours.

These batteries have huge potential for fleet vehicles as well with high loads to break being able to recapture large amounts of energy quickly is key to diesel-hybrid work trucks.

And any great breakthroughs in batteries can be a good thing even for early adopters as they will need to eventually replace batteries anyway. Taking a early EV from 100 to 250 mile range when you have to replace batteries anyway is a great thing.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:36:05 +0000

I am glad to be alive to witness this transitional stage of the energy evolution, i.e., from the combustion of fossil fuels to the usage of the more universe friendly electrons/atom. What’s next? Fussion?