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timmac
Explorer
Sep 29, 2019

Million-mile battery unveiled by ground-breaking research.

If this is true than ICE autos and such are going instinct faster than ever thought, might want to hold off on that expensive ICE RV or Truck..

Million-mile battery unveiled by ground-breaking research

Elon Musk promised—and Jeff Dahn delivered. With the publishing of a ground-breaking paper in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES), Dahn announced to the world that Tesla may soon have a battery that makes their robot taxis and long-haul electric trucks viable.

Dahn and his research group are Tesla's battery research partner. Dahn said: "Cells of this type should be able to power an electric vehicle for over one million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage."

https://m.techxplore.com/news/2019-09-million-mile-battery-unveiled-ground-breaking.html
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  • timmac's avatar
    timmac
    Explorer
    Sep 29, 2019
    Before one thinks the battery will go for a million miles before charge is not true, it will last for a million miles of recharging..

    Game changer..
  • am1958's avatar
    am1958
    Explorer
    Sep 29, 2019
    "Cells of this type should be able to power an electric vehicle for over one million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage."


    That word is very important when used by anyone associated with Tesla...
  • memtb's avatar
    memtb
    Explorer
    Sep 29, 2019
    If the batteries are used in a “spacecraft”.......covering a million miles wouldn’t take very long! memtb
  • Ozlander's avatar
    Ozlander
    Explorer
    Sep 29, 2019
    memtb wrote:
    If the batteries are used in a “spacecraft”.......covering a million miles wouldn’t take very long! memtb

    Yeah, Been some that went to the moon and back.
    And to Mars.
  • jkwilson's avatar
    jkwilson
    Explorer II
    Sep 29, 2019
    What can be done in a lab or in small quantities in a controlled environment is often not practical scaled up for large-scale manufacturing and exposed to real world conditions.
  • FlatBroke's avatar
    FlatBroke
    Explorer II
    Sep 30, 2019
    When I can replenish a battery as fast as it takes me fuel my truck, while on a trip, I might get interested. Around town driving is a different deal. But, I doubt I need a million mile, 20 year battery at 74 Years old.
  • fj12ryder's avatar
    fj12ryder
    Explorer III
    Sep 30, 2019
    This thread kind of got derailed, as usual with threads. But the point of the OP's original post was to celebrate a battery that will last a long time, not hold a charge a long time, or supply electricity for a long time, but be recharged lots of times.

    IMO, incremental improvement in storage, hardly groundbreaking news. Now a battery the size of a 9 volt battery, and able to power a truck pulling a trailer for 500 miles, that would be groundbreaking, world shaking news.

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