kublikhan wrote:GM Volt has a 16 kilowatt hour battery.
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These all fall within the range specified by yesplease. Yet it ranks among the dumbest thing you ever heard?
No you DI - int!!!
Come now KK, if you are going to try to challenge my mock, at least bring a weapon to the gang fight.
1st, the Volt is not yet for sale,
2nd, Chevy may not be in business in 2011, the intended 1st model year of the Volt.
3rd, the 16Kw hour battery is a "target."
4th, by Chevy's own admission, their car will only go, MAXIMUM, 40 miles on a single charge.
Whoops!
No you DI -int!
Look, I agree you can power an EV on a 9 volt battery - if you only want to move about 10 feet between recharges.
40 Mile range? That's not the EV I described.
If you want a 300 mile range, you'd need something 8 times the size.
Now, if you're being honest, you'll go back and read what I originally wrote, which is that EV car batteries are going to need to be 1,000 times the size of a laptop battery.
And that's still just about right.
If you want a 40 mile EV, but probably 30 or 20 when the thing eventually hits the road, if ever, then we can agree that YesPlease's battery cube will work.
But if you want to go 10 times that distance - which virtually everybody does, which was my original hypothetical target in this thread,
then it's the stupidest thing I ever read to say that we're going to be doing it with YesPlease toaster batteries.
It's just a fine example of how these GW types are delusional about alternative energy sources and applications.
And by the way, let's revisit this thread if and when the Volt actually hits the road. If you actually believe that they're going to hit their target of 16Kwh and 40 mile range, then you're probably buying GM stock right now.
You did! You did say it!!
June 5, 09. Taking a powder for at least a while - big change of life coming up.
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We're saved! YesPlease promises that we'll be running cars on battery cubes about the size of a toaster.