Technology ConnectionsI'm ripping the band-aid off.
Tesla won the plug war - and that's good news!
A surprisingly good series of events have unfolded, and this video is my mea culpa. Also, Sorry, John!Links 'n' stuffHere's a playlist to all of my EV-relate...
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Ben S.@TechConnectify I'm 100% with you on payment opinions. I've had an EV for 5 years and have never charged it away from home because of payment friction concerns, and I think plug-n-charge potentially does way more to add security/privacy/competition concerns than it does to solve friction ones.
Honestly, anyone who cares about EV's becoming the norm should be advocating for the EV charging experience to be as similar as possible to the gas/petrol filling one. Make adoption easy and familiar FFS!
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@HunterZ @TechConnectify A possibly silly idea:
What if we engineered a new chemical, a liquid which could retain an electric charge, and you "recharged" by connecting a dual-hose thing to your "gas tank" that sucks out the spent liquid and pumps in charged, and you only pay for the charge on the new liquid because they can charge and re-sell the old? Would that be familiar enough?
Tvorsk@mos_8502 @HunterZ @TechConnectify So years ago on an obscure forum some guy was looking for people to interview and other info regarding the G+W Zinc Chloride project.
I've never seen the documentary if it got made, but people shared this ad, a bunch of photos (including some prototype cars), some background how new boss killed it because it was pet project of previous', and of course conspiracy theories.
I still don't know if it's all an elaborate troll or not but if not, this system would be pumpable, though I think only when deeply discharged (little remaining buildup on electrodes).
Electric Vehicle Battery: 35 Years Ahead of Its Time!
@mos_8502 @HunterZ @TechConnectify
Mmm... okay, caffeine kicked in
Still on mobile so I actually didn't have a chance to rewatch that vid and remind myself of their claims but if I remember the principle correctly and "charged" means there is a crystalline (?) deposit on the electrodes which returns to the liquid while discharging, then obviously just replacing a
"discharged" (dissolved) liquid with "charged" liquid would actually result in two Not-Haves (active component not on electrodes, not in liquid) so that wouldn't work
You'd need to swap the whole battery unit all the same :(
@mos_8502 @HunterZ @TechConnectify
Ah well, sorry for wasting your time
I did remember another anecdote from the forum stories though, so just to amuse you - supposedly some... "designer" / manager - not the executive who supposedly killed it later, someone lower on tle ladder - was super obsessed about making all this stuff square and boxy because that was more techy and futuristic and most importantly already depicted that way in concept art by the graphics team
So cylindrical pressure vessels were verboten and only after months of stress cracks and such he agreed to a cylinder inside a boxy outer shell