Mastodawn

“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”

Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.

This is the future.

China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The Nail Test: Why this $54 billion innovation is terrifying Western auto executives

The practice of reproducing failure on purpose until the physics revealed itself became the bedrock of BYD’s entire operation.

Fast Company

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vxo 1d ago

@chris oh yeah, lithium iron phosphate and lithium titanate battery cells are remarkably boring - you can't make them go FWOOMP.

Lithium titanate will probably not make it as an EV battery due to low energy density (though it may remain an option for short-range, opportunity-charging things like transit vehicles!). LiFePO4 is ready to rock in common EV applications. What's odd is seeing that more EV manufacturers aren't using it

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸1d ago

@vxo i can only speculate that it is a supply chain issue

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Amgine

@chris @vxo

One of the issues is new technology.

Solid-state batteries is one tantalizing edge. Another is a substantial change away from silicon.

And many of the break-throughs are patented by fossil fuel industry. And no, they are not letting anyone develop them.

So the current bleading edge is literally patenting ways to work around the newly claimed patents.