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2021-03-08 Science & Technology

Israeli 5-minute Battery Charge Aims to Fire Up Electric Cars

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Posted by Fred 2021-03-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Wishful thinking. Young people in cities don't own vehicles, they use rentals. Mass transit is the goal. Costs for most too prohibitive. I see it more likely horse and buggy days will return, especially in rural areas. Service issues alone will be prohibitive. EMS services at wrecks will require special training and tools. Main goal to to prevent individual freedoms to move about at will.

Posted by Dale 2021-03-08 08:37|| 2021-03-08 08:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Great! Um, BTW, where does the electricity come from?

Posted by 2021-03-08 08:44|| 2021-03-08 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you see those electrical cables coming into the charger *glowing*? That is the energy losses from the required "current density" (amperage) needed to push kilowatts worth of energy quickly into the battery medium... This will require a series of Hi-voltage/Hi-amperage power lines back to the "new and improved" power stations.

Posted by magpie 2021-03-08 09:24|| 2021-03-08 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Glass battery boxes and cars? Yeah I don't see a problem either. Ask Boeing about the steel battery box they had to install in the 787 Screamliner to ~~Prevent~~ contain the battery fires...

Posted by USN, Ret. 2021-03-08 09:37|| 2021-03-08 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 If switching materials results in a cell phone or iPad that can go significantly longer between charges, or charges significantly faster, I’m in. On the other hand, while one of our vehicles is dual fuel, I have absolutely no interest in going all electric, not even if the vehicle carries an easily changed out spare battery and has solar panels on the roof to charge it with. Our current house, apparently at the end of a power line, is too often without electricity for me to be comfortable having no alternatives — even though my exurb has with time become merely a suburb.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-08 10:02|| 2021-03-08 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6
Answer-> #2 -

Posted by Foozle Shaggier4995 2021-03-08 10:18|| 2021-03-08 10:18|| Front Page Top

Home Model

Posted by Foozle Shaggier4995 2021-03-08 10:21|| 2021-03-08 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8

The TW Portable Model

For Special Applications

Posted by Foozle Shaggier4995 2021-03-08 10:23|| 2021-03-08 10:23|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jumbo Whomble6553 2021-03-08 10:58|| 2021-03-08 10:58|| Front Page Top

#10
TW Slim & Trim Whole House Power Station

Posted by Trusting Civic4189 2021-03-08 11:08|| 2021-03-08 11:08|| Front Page Top

#11 <3

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-08 12:11|| 2021-03-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#12 We had lots of small rodents when I was a child — hamsters and gerbils mostly, with the occasional guinea pig. So the song of the night time exercise wheel is like a lullaby to me.

The bicycle one is how my mother and her parents powered the secret radio during WWII.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-08 12:15|| 2021-03-08 12:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe firing up a 5-minute artillery battery might be better.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-08 12:22|| 2021-03-08 12:22|| Front Page Top

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