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Will This Be The Deal Breaker For Ev's?
If this actually comes about it could be the game changer, certainly if the price was ok I'd be up for it.
700+ miles on a 10 min charge, longer battery life, lower fire risk and if your into it 25% less carbon than a current EV. And of course no deprived kids forced to mine rare metals.
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Who said anything about the environment?
And of course they are doing it for the profit, thats how things get done. Do you think a charity will do it?
Yes Zacs, that is what I thought. The only real thing holding me back are the battery issues.
Exactly, Gromit. My EV only has a 145 mile range and the only time I've had to charge, away from home, was going to a wedding in Chester (luckily the hotel had EV charging points). People see the range but don't actually sit down and work out when the last time they did over the range of newer EVs (roughly around 240 miles on a full charge now).
There is a slight problem with Toyota’s claim.
Typically EVs can manage around 4 miles per kWh charge, therefore with the claimed 745 mile range, the car battery is receiving around 190kWh in 10 minutes.
If we assume they are using 3 phase mains power source to charge the battery, that works out at around 1,000 amps per phase for the 10 minutes.
In Toyota’s EV future, everyone is going to have their own substation in their back garden.
No Gromit, not the same as it can easily be extinguished by the Fire brigade.
Contrary to popular belief, propogated by Holywood, cars dont tend to explode on impact.
Anyhow, its irrelevant for the point of this post as one of the positives of this 'new' battery is that is wont have the problem so all will be good.