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A firebolt? Makes your car a toast in 5 minutes.Apple being Apple... I am assuming Apple will require a non-standard charging port? And will only accept Apple pay?
...Apple is building a "monocell" design that will bulk up the individual battery cells and free up space inside the battery pack by removing pouches and modules that hold battery materials. This will allow for more active material in a smaller package...
What does that mean?
Does that mean instead of having thousands of cells, now it is only "monocell"? One cell?
Instead of having many cells, many modules, now the whole thing is "monocell", one single module, one single compartment?
The Apple car is a big nothing.
Tesla makes Model 3s with LFP batteries.Well it would take 800 of these LiFePO4 batteries to equal what is in an early model S. Retail cost $800,000
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I'm no expert here but I think the problem here is heat. Heat generated by a battery increases by the volume of the battery, and so is proportional to the cube of the battery size, while surface area where you can dissipate only goes up with the square of the size. So bigger batteries are much harder to keep cool. A battery twice as big generates 8x as much heat but only has 4x the surface area from which to dissipate it.
I am surprise that no one mention Sony which shown a concept car during the 2020 CES?
If this happens and Apple follows their iPhone trends then they will have last year's features from Tesla, claim they are NEW features and ask at least a 20% premium. Not only that but they'll slow your car down after two years and force you to buy a new one if you ever want to take it on the highway.
Apple car.....that's funny!
It's good that Apple didn't buy Tesla because the pace of iteration and risk-taking would have been missing.If Apple had bought Tesla, what would Elon have been doing then?
Retired or work for Apple... and replace Tim?
Do you think that Elon Musk is going to work only for SpaceX after the delivery of the new Tesla Roaster?
Yeah I was assuming you would need at least enough cells to get the required voltage.The problem here is that an electrochemical cell provides the electric potential difference in the range of 1 to 5 volts. One can't, absolutely can't, get 350 V from a single cell. Other problem include a huge capacitance that makes everything extremely slow and zero redundancy that mean any leaky spot will immediately trash the entire battery. All these are before we come to the problem of heat that you describe. Elon was very surprised too: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1341484482302533635
I'm no expert here but I think the problem here is heat. Heat generated by a battery increases by the volume of the battery, and so is proportional to the cube of the battery size, while surface area where you can dissipate only goes up with the square of the size. So bigger batteries are much harder to keep cool. A battery twice as big generates 8x as much heat but only has 4x the surface area from which to dissipate it.
Apple being Apple... I am assuming Apple will require a non-standard charging port? And will only accept Apple pay?
That's not necessarily a problem. Ostensibly, a pouch-style battery could be shaped to have a much larger surface area relative to its volume than round cells. For example, imagine a thin, almost flat battery that is repeatedly folded back over itself, leaving a small gap in between, with water flowing through the gaps to cool it. I'm not sure how you would actually build such a thing in practice, but I think it is at least theoretically possible.