University of Waterloo Research: could triple range

[DMC-Orangeville]

Research at University of Waterloo claim: "Battery research could triple range of electric vehicles"
Nice if true; a major score....

Battery research could triple range of electric vehicles | Waterloo News

 

[sakimano]

neat. Although it says 'could triple the range of electric cars from 200 to 600 kms.

Guess they haven't heard of the Tesla Model S/X/3?

 

[Doug_G]

If I had a dollar for every exciting battery announcement made in the last few years, I would be able to afford a Roadster.

 

[AB4EJ]

There are a vast number of exotic, new battery technologies out there. The trick is to find a technology that meets the vast number of requirements for something to become a mainstream consumer item. For example, there is price, charging time, discharge rate, longevity (number of charge-discharge cycles before battery becomes a doorstop), toxicity of materials, manufacturability, heat tolerance, cold tolerance, weight, availability of raw materials, etc., etc., etc., etc., - that's why there have been so many announcements and so few actual new products.

 

[Vawlkus]

Tesla isn’t interested in the latest and greatest, they’re interested in proven results. That’s what a lot of people don’t seem to get.

 

[DMC-Orangeville]

Tesla isn’t interested in the latest and greatest, they’re interested in proven results. That’s what a lot of people don’t seem to get.

True. And yet, Tesla have partnered with Dalhousie University (in your home town) in a battery research project......

 

[Vawlkus]

True. And yet, Tesla have partnered with Dalhousie University (in your home town) in a battery research project......

Yeah, I haven't found someone to bribe to find out what they're up to in there

 

[Phillip L]

Last summer I met a physicist from Dalhousie and asked him about the battery work being done there and he said that it is by far the biggest, best funded research division in the Physics department there. If I can remember rightly, he said the big challenge they are working on is getting the balance right between enabling faster charging without causing faster battery degradation.

 

[wayner]

The work is being done by Dr. Jeff Dahn:

Tesla — which aims to not only improve electric vehicles, but “accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy” more broadly — signed-off on a five-year exclusive collaboration with Dr. Dahn’s lab, focused on increasing the lifetime, decreasing the cost and improving the energy density of lithium-ion batteries.

 

[Vawlkus]

Interesting. I’ll have to look him up next time I’m down that way.