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Imagine making the 19-hour, 1,800-kilometre drive from Toronto to Halifax in an electric car without having to stop for a recharge.
That's theoretically possible with a special kind of battery being demonstrated this week in Montreal by Israel-based Phinergy and Alcoa Canada.
The partners have refurbished an "ordinary car" to use a special "aluminum-air" battery. The battery can extend the range of an electric car by 1,600 kilometres when used in conjunction with the vehicle's regular lithium-ion battery.
The regular battery range of electric cars now on the market is a few hundred kilometres at most 135 kilometres for the Nissan Leaf and 480 kilometres for the more expensive version of the Tesla Model S. That makes those cars unsuitable for extended road trips, unless high-voltage fast-charging stations, which are still relatively uncommon, are available along the way.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/electric-car-with-massive-range-in-demo-by-phinergy-alcoa-1.2664653
Good news if it pans out.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)tech3149
(4,452 posts)Sorry, I didn't bookmark it for future reference. The concept was to use dual catalysts. One to convert the hydrogen to, I believe, formic acid and one to convert it back to hydrogen. It would be more applicable to storage and retrieval of renewable but could work on mobile applications.
As with most developments, I think their all announced too early in the process.
I'm curious what Musk was saying the other day about doing something that was really outside the norm?