Something about this really stinks...

[TaxmanHog]

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Swappable Solid-State Battery Demonstration
How can Donut Battery transform existing vehicles? In this episode, we built a swappable battery demonstrator to test exactly that. The result is a smaller, lighter pack with more capacity, faster charging, and simplified design. Even with this simple demonstrator, you can already start to see how much solid-state batteries could change everyday use cases like last-mile delivery, where range, uptime, and charging speed directly define how much work a vehicle can do in a day.

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[ClevelandBeemer]

The more videos come out the more I don’t believe we will see this is in a car/truck anytime soon. Perhaps Verge will prove me wrong, but I have my doubts. It’s also concerning that energy density and safety claims have NOT been proven.

Furthermore, BYD is showing they can accomplish 10C charging speeds with their Blade2 LFP pack. All cars with blade 2, (which is being sold and is on the streets today) can charge from 0% to 97% in under 9 minutes. How? 1,000V+ charging architecture.

China is making automakers, especially domestic automakers here in the USA, look like fools.

 

[PreservedSwine]

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https://insideevs.com/news/697895/watch-nio-el7-instantly-swap-its-battery-in-pov-video/

 

[ClevelandBeemer]

https://insideevs.com/news/697895/watch-nio-el7-instantly-swap-its-battery-in-pov-video/

The battery swap tech is cool, but probably makes more sense in logistics applications rather than general consumer. Again, with BYD making vehicles with 400 miles of range that can charge to 97% in less than 9 minutes, the time saved by swapping batteries is negligible IMO.

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