Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption::The potential to significantly reduce pollution could be huge.

  • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    i work with electric go-karts, the OTL superleggero specifically. and ive worked with personal device batteries for a little over a decade…

    Holy Fuck 10min charge times.

    ever see those live leak videos of people touching power lines or trying to steal copper from a grounding rod?

    this charging station better be fully autonomous.

    its like when those teslas crash and burns. ever see a class delta fire? It’s the equivalent to a light saber but in the form of Muk from pokemon. I cannot fathom trusting today’s american drivers with that responsibility.

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      1 year ago

      Because the current charging stations don’t have enough to kill someone? This seems really overblown, like they’re just going to have live wires you have to connect to your car or something. There will probably be no real difference in charging for the user.

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        1 year ago

        safety is written in blood. and the average car driver has no business near what essentially is an electrically charged bomb.

        what happens when someone thinks they can do the repairs themselves?

        there are already horrific stories about EV cars crashing and needing thousands of gallons of water to put out…which btw water does not put out class delta fires it makes them explode from the reaction.

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          1 year ago

          Same goes with an open tank of a combustible liquid, right? And filling it with a combustible liquid gun. Sooo safe!

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      1 year ago

      And yet millions of drivers pump flammable liquids into their car every day. I fail to see why you’re lumping lithium battery instability in with this new solid state battery tech.

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      1 year ago

      Gosh, 🤣 … the image of having carbonized and/or partially vaporized humans quickly switched my awe in the technology into repugnance.

      Darn, why does amaizing technology often end up with horrifying set backs and adverse effects?