Battery Development

[FoMoJo]

Tesla Model S Goes 752 Miles with a Prototype Battery from a Michigan Startup

Imagine an electric car that covers 752 miles on a single charge. You can't buy it today, but a modified Tesla Model S drove that distance across Michigan last month. It was the work of a two-year-old Michigan startup, Our Next Energy (ONE), which says it is aiming to make safer and more sustainable batteries. ONE retrofitted the car with a battery holding twice the energy of Tesla's original—while fitting entirely within the same space. It's a proof of concept for the company's own future battery design.

Battery engineer seems like a good profession in the future.

[Morris Minor]

Tesla Model S Goes 752 Miles with a Prototype Battery from a Michigan Startup

Imagine an electric car that covers 752 miles on a single charge. You can't buy it today, but a modified Tesla Model S drove that distance across Michigan last month. It was the work of a two-year-old Michigan startup, Our Next Energy (ONE), which says it is aiming to make safer and more sustainable batteries. ONE retrofitted the car with a battery holding twice the energy of Tesla's original—while fitting entirely within the same space. It's a proof of concept for the company's own future battery design.

Battery engineer seems like a good profession in the future.

Most definitely... we live in exciting times. 2022 is to EV development as 1922 was to ICE vehicle development.

[JWC]

Why does this remind me of all the tales in the seventies of the guy who invented a carburetor that gets 100mpg on a large sedan?  (The story says the guy was paid off by oil companies not to pursue the carburetor design).

[RomanChariot]

That sounds great. I hope they can scale it down to deliver a 400 mile range battery that takes up half of the space (and weight) and has a fast recharge time. Super long distance batteries are only really desirable if you can't charge the battery quickly and easily.

[FoMoJo]

Why does this remind me of all the tales in the seventies of the guy who invented a carburetor that gets 100mpg on a large sedan?  (The story says the guy was paid off by oil companies not to pursue the carburetor design).

That tale was around in the '50s as well, likely even before then.

[Laconian]

LiFePO4 batteries are great for all sorts of reasons. Safer and don't rely on ethically problematic scarce elements like cobalt.

[Morris Minor]

The word from That which is the Fount of All Knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery