Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

Post by vablings » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #198

rogerrogerr wrote: post #172

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And you mostly aren’t charging to 80%, usually it’s closer to 40-60%.

heh, ok, that’s strange. So when you say it’s got a 350 mile range, but then make the point you only need to charge to 40% that you would be fine with a single vehicle that had a 140mile range? I swear buying an EV in 2026 breaks brains. The push back has been so bad because the mfgs pushed the single car lie… but the people that jumped in now need to defend their $60,000 purchases. I get it, but please don’t think y…

Post by jojobas » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

qwery wrote: post #257

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The word "battery" is a stand-in for electrochemical cell, which wood obviously isn't. Quite some advantages are expected from batteries that don't involve liquids or gels, whether incremental or not.

I don't know what more I can say to convince you that I'm not trying to put down the technology. I'm interested in it, that's why I think it's a shame to curse it with a used-car salesman marketing name. As for wood batteries, Most usage of the term 'battery' is independent of technology, outside of usually wanting electricity as the interface. The fact that most batteries people talk about happen to be electrochemic…

Post by pseudohadamard » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 2:51 AM UTC

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If you can extract some energy then by definition it is not zero-point energy.

I presume that was a Stargate reference. Zero Point Module, often abbreviated ZPM, is a power source, created by the Ancients, capable of supplying tremendous amounts of energy. It is one of the most formidable power sources known to exist, having been developed by the Ancients several million years ago during their reign of the Milky Way galaxy https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Zero_Point_Module

Post by dzhiurgis » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 6:28 AM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #295

dzhiurgis wrote: post #252

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I suspect there's a big of cognitive dissonance here. My guess US has more emphasis on road trips, longer distances, vastly more wilderness areas, etc. Europe is mostly urbanized it's almost boring. Dunno about China, but I guess they cracked charging infrastructure.

Exactly this. “Oh, but Norway uses EVs a ton!” … cool, Norway is the size of an average US state, the population of Connecticut, over an extremely thin area which optimizes one vector of infrastructure automatically. And makes the majority of its money on oil. Geez, almost like EV ultra-success stories aren’t even remotely comparable the rest of the world.

Post by ben_w » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

moffkalast wrote: post #308

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They use crystals, and quantum, so they're obviously the real deal.

We should star calling silicon chips crystals, we'll sound much more legit on the galactic level.