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Don't worry by the time Solid State batteries are ready for prime time you might be ready for a new car. You can see I'm from the school you should own a car for decades. If it is working for you, why worry? Is ANY one going to make a car AS safe as a Tesla? what do a few pennies a mile matter?It seems like they having something like this according to news. Interesting developments makes me kinda wish I wasn’t in the forefront of the ev purchase since I aim to keep this car for years.
Is this legit?
Kilmer talks about home charging that takes hours being a thing of the past. No way. Home L2 charge times are not dominated by the rate at which the battery can take energy - they’re limited by how much power your home charger can provide. If your house can only provide 100 amps at 240V, then 24 KW is as fast as you can charge. If your battery is 50 KWh it will still take a bit over 2 hours to charge. Your house’s capacity is the limiting factor, not the battery.
Supercharging is a whole different story, but there are still limits. To fill a 100 KWh battery in 10 minutes requires a charge rate of 600KW before factoring in imperfect efficiency.
Agreed, I’m just pointing out that Kilmer’s discussion of faster home charging times as a benefit of SS batteries was baloney.All true. But I would argue whether it's important or not. For trips, absolutely. For home charging? When I park I'm generally in. It doesn't matter whether it takes 10 minutes or 10 hours as long as it's ready for me the next morning.
Caught the QuantumScape CEO on Bloomberg today... they’re in the vanguard of solid-state battery development, and in fact just announced a major breakthrough earlier this week.
When asked about timelines, he said he expected SS batteries based on their technology to start showing up in EVs in “2024 or 2025”.
Which to me means, “2025... if we’re lucky.”
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Kilmer talks about home charging that takes hours being a thing of the past. No way. Home L2 charge times are not dominated by the rate at which the battery can take energy - they’re limited by how much power your home charger can provide. If your house can only provide 100 amps at 240V, then 24 KW is as fast as you can charge. If your battery is 50 KWh it will still take a bit over 2 hours to charge. Your house’s capacity is the limiting factor, not the battery.
Supercharging is a whole different story, but there are still limits. To fill a 100 KWh battery in 10 minutes requires a charge rate of 600KW before factoring in imperfect efficiency.