New breakthrough in Li-Air

[kenliles]

For those of you following this promising technology
it just got a whole lot more...

Lithium-air battery advance could be jaw-dropping improvement over li-ion | Ars Technica


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[Doug_G]

Is it just me, or is the phrase, "new breakthrough in Lithium Air" something that gets uttered about once a week?

[Doug_G]

Mod Note: This thread was moved from the Tesla Motors section - this seemed like a more appropriate place for it.

[vfx]

The"Batteries stupid" thread has been the catch-all battery news area.

[Doug_G]

Yeah, but I can't merge since I'm not an admin here. I can only move it from my section. Maybe another mod will step in.

[Norbert]

If it is for real, we'll hear more about it soon...

[Iz]

Some of us may be suffering from "New Battery Breakthrough" fatigue.

Just to entertain the idea... if Li-Air is successful (and soon), even 5x's the current Model S range offerings will be quite dramatic. Will that 230-mile pack become an 1150-mile pack? Is this an accurate assumption @ 5x's improvement over Li-ion?

The article hints at 10x's. That would be a total paradigm shift.

This topic can also be moved to the Lithium-air batteries thread.

[AnOutsider]

A shift indeed. Imagine a 300 mile S becoming a 3,000 mile S. The average driver would need to recharge every 3 months. Big network of Superchargers? For what? You can pretty much do any road trip if you charge up before leaving, and those that don't can't likely make it hundreds of miles to the next station.

If this tech were also fairly cheap, gas stations would be ghost towns.

[NuclearPowered]

Cars would be small potatoes. With that capacity, you could do electric aircraft, trucks, boats, heavy equipment, etc.

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[Citizen-T]

I doubt that they would produce cars that can go 3000mi on a charge. Instead, they would produce cars that can do 500mi, and use the rest of the improvement to reduce the cost of the car.