Electric battery tech breakthrough, triple range?

[Tantalum]

https://electrek.co/2017/12/12/batt...al-breakthrough-to-triple-electric-car-range/

I'm one of those people that is very conservative in my view of batteries ever really replacing fossil fuels in planes.. because of the whole energy density thing

BUT, these guys seem smart (not just vaporware) and if their claim of tripling an electric car's range is true.. this could also mean some potentially promising options for electric aviation as well

Thoughts?

 

[injb]

The opening line tells you all you need to know:

In the latest battery breakthrough claim of the week

 

[Lachlan]

There is an electric car built around 1905 that is on exhibit in th3 Denver Science Museum. Its range was about 100 miles on a single charge. Over 100 years later and we have barely improved on the range, even with gigantic leaps in electric cell technology.

 

[PaulS]

I think it is going to happen, hopefully in my lifetime so I can see OPEC eat ****.

 

[injb]

There is an electric car built around 1905 that is on exhibit in th3 Denver Science Museum. Its range was about 100 miles on a single charge. Over 100 years later and we have barely improved on the range, even with gigantic leaps in electric cell technology.

Well maybe the range has only increased by x2 or 3 but then I bet that 1905 car didn't carry 5 people and weigh 5000lbs. Or do 155mph, or meet modern safety standards for that matter. Take all that stuff out of the Tesla Model S and I'm sure it would do many times the range of that car. Put another way, I wonder what the range of an IC powered car was in those days...


EDIT...did some reading, and apparently the Ford Model T had a 10 gallon tank and did somewhere between 13 and 21 MPG. So, it had a range of no more than around 200 miles - twice that of the 1905 electric car mentioned in the OP. So things are about the same today - gasoline powered cars get around twice the range of electric cars.

 

[denverpilot]

EDIT...did some reading, and apparently the Ford Model T had a 10 gallon tank and did somewhere between 13 and 21 MPG. So, it had a range of no more than around 200 miles - twice that of the 1905 electric car mentioned in the OP. So things are about the same today - gasoline powered cars get around twice the range of electric cars.

And a diesel car will usually beat both by another 200 miles, especially at highway economy cruise.

All are now human-bladder-limited.