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I work for a flashlight company, so batteries are very important to me. Battery technology is not silicon based like microchip technology. Example: Your phone is twice as fast as the one you had a few months ago, but the battery is the same.
Battery density has not changed significantly in the past 30 years. Yes Lithium-Ion batteries are great, but with a max range of about half a day of driving (300 miles), they are not the answer most people are looking for. We, I am predicting it now LOL, should see a change in battery density our lifetime. With the advent of graphene and carbon nano tubes the possibly surface area has now more than doubled. I expect to be an old man, but when it happens, it is going to change the world. Imagine a battery that lasts 10 times as long! Scientist are working on this exact thing now! |
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That zombie mustang is here where I live. It's a drag strip monster, but man is it weird watching a mustang do a burnout and hear just the tire squeal.
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I grew up racing RC trucks and flying planes, and lithium batteries totally changed everything. My stadium truck used to get 4.25 minutes of runtime (geared on purpose, 4 minute race plus enough reserve to finish the current lap). With a lithium polymer pack it's MUCH faster, and gets close to 10 times the run time. A 2s (8.4v max) 5000mah pack is lighter than an old 6 cell 1700mah ni-cad or 3000mah ni-mh, and can deliver way more current on demand as well. The packs I current run in my truck can deliver about 250a if there's enough load on the motor.
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I was on a team that built race cars here. We have a saying...
"Once it belongs to the school, it never leaves." Trying to buy anything from the school probably would result in about 200 pages of paper work to get a "no."
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the racing stripes?
Meh, whatever. You gotta get white in there. School colors. Me like.
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I hope he never runs into any fast street cars....
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