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Originally Posted by Thomas
I heard today from an engineer that battery's abilities (e.g. capacity) are doubling every two years, so it wouldn't be a problem for the car he's designing now to reach 500 km range in 2012 or so.
I was thinking about the last four years with LiPos and that good 30C cells have been around for about two years now... and most importantly, that I don't see a big increase in energy density. So my conclusion is: This is BS. Such an improvement could only come from a new technology, but I don't see it happening.
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Such a car could've been done already. The technology has been available since early 2000. I sent my idea to a few of my client's to give me a rough idea of how far the vehicles I have in mind would travel. They said it would be able to go from New York to California and probably back. This was without one of the key components of my design. The new technology we read about mainly comes from people trying to get the most money for them. Look at A123, they have yet to show a profit, have patent issues, place to manufacture them and only 2 commercially available cells which are all 30C. I can get more cells done with a higher C technology and I'll be trying 2 cells, but mainly for our hobby use. I will also rub them in the A123 investors to see what they'll say.
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