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2025-03-19 Science & Technology

BYD unveils new battery technology to 'solve' one of the biggest flaws with EVs

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-19 09:59|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 Another blow for Europe's EV revolution: Audi prepares to slash 7,500 jobs as it scrambles to fund 'challenging transition to electric mobility'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-19 10:21|| 2025-03-19 10:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The Chinese claim they can add 292 miles of battery power in five minutes! Fill up as fast as diesel fuel! 292 miles? For a golf cart?

Posted by Bobby 2025-03-19 10:57|| 2025-03-19 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Uh huh. With or without an existential fire that can't be put out with water?

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-19 11:31|| 2025-03-19 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 What sort of voltage and amperage do these 'miracle battery' recharging stations require? What does that do to existing power lines and local networks? Infrastructure B Hard ...then we ask about the new power plants that will be required.

Posted by magpie 2025-03-19 11:35|| 2025-03-19 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 My gas station owner always smiles when I pull up with my Cadillac Escalade. It's so easy to keep people happy.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-03-19 11:35|| 2025-03-19 11:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Not a day goes by when the CCP isn't inventing warp drive, curing cancer, or whatever.

Posted by Cured Romantic 2025-03-19 19:49|| 2025-03-19 19:49|| Front Page Top

#7 The Chinese claim they can add 292 miles of battery power in five minutes!

A lightning strike transmits gawd-knows how many amps in a fraction of a second, so it is theoretically possible. Doing so repeatedly in a safe manner is left as an exercise for the Reader.

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-19 20:55|| 2025-03-19 20:55|| Front Page Top

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