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Originally Posted by El_Zoido
It's only made as a sportscar.
The chargeing time is about 3,5 hours... but as I mentioned, the battery system they use is rather improvisation than inovation. They used cross-connected notebook batteries 
I put it here just to show that you can build other things than those soap boxes powered with electricity
It seems that last year there had been significant breakthroughs in battery and ultra capacitor technologies, which means that the developement and implimentation could happen sigificantly faster than expected.
All major car companies have been working on hydrogen-fuel cell cars for the last 2 decades... they focused on hydrogen, because batteries seemed like they would never have the neccessary performence.
Due to massive success of mobile technology this has changed significantly.
And since hydrogen cars are basicly a electric car with a fuelcell to generate the electricity... the car industry would only need to change the fuelcell & hydrogen tank with a battery/capacitor and they have finished concepts. |
So its only whithin the last couple of years that there has happened something in the development of batteries, due to improvements on cell phone and laptop computer batteries? Think I read somewhere on Teslas homesite that their car drives on ordinary laptop batteries, which I guess must be a lot cheaper than the ordinary massive heavy duty batteries normally used in eletric cars.
It seems now that 3 out of the 5 big problems with electric cars has been solved. The high weight and high cost of the batteries, as well as the speed performance. Now theres only the charging time and the driving range left, although they have been significantly improved - from 8 - 10 hours down to 3,5 hours, and from 100 km up to 350 - 400 km. Its still not a car you can use for vacations down to Italy, but if the charging time could be reduced to 1/2 hour, then you can stop for a cup of coffee every 350 km which most people do anyway.