Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge

Or, better yet, they could provide the same range in smaller, lighter vehicles with less resource use.

Article states the use of an electron beam to enable this. So not currently scalable, but still a seemingly significant result.

Oooohhh, battery revolution claim #3515351657829, one of these days one of em MUST be true!

1k mile or kilometer range? Which is it? I'm inclined to believe it's kilometers. Time to read the article, I suppose. It's enticing either way.

Sounds nice, wake me up when it's available

So how long can we play Steam Deck?

I wish people would stop obsessing so much over range. Once we have decent charging infrastructure in place and people overcome all the FUD, this will simply cease to be relevant.

If anyone cares, I think this is the research paper. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202305298

That would go a long way towards solving the range anxiety barrier. 1000km is close to the maximum that same people can do in a single day. Yes, you could push further in a day in a pinch, but not comfortably unless you're rotating drivers. It's pretty close to the limits enforced on long haul truck drivers in Canada or the US (depends on speed limits and traffic density and a few other things).

Sodium is the future of batteries right now.

Projections from BNEF suggest that sodium-ion batteries could reach pack densities of nearly 150 watt-hours per kilogram by 2025. And some battery giants and automakers in China think the technology is already good enough for prime time. 1

+1 for them not exploding too.

I won't be buying a new car. ICE or EV. Specifically because my old car doesn't have a lot of the things that allow the car manufacturer to spy on me, and I won't upgrade to any of the nonsense. Right now I can fix pretty much everything in that car for less than the price of a new vehicle.

gasoline cars and motorcycles will be missed, like analog film cameras and quarter inch reel tape. people will imagine what it must have been like when cars were bad ass.

Technically a 1000KM range ev should be available in markets that sell Nio cars

https://electrek.co/2023/12/19/nio-et7-650-miles-range-game-changing-battery/

The problem is we can't keep the same resources waste up. Lower range and smaller cars is what is needed. The perfect car of the future would be a one-seater that is as small and light as a electric velomobile (~70kg). Build a few millions of them and replace all cars in a city with those. Ideally self driving and as a robo-taxi, but even without the self driving this would be good. Of course cars isn't really that high on the list for climate change.

But as a civilization we are simply not an intelligent species.

Obsession with one of the least energy efficient and one of the most harmful ways of transportation has to end.

Build a fucking train.