Samsung's solid-state battery could be the game-changer EVs need, boasting a 600-mile range, 9-minute charging time, and 20-year lifespan.
  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If this works as advertised then it’ll revolutionize more than just cars. This is huge

    • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      So long as its not 2,3,4 times the price of current cars. Otherwise put them in busses and trains. Cost is strangly missing, I’m guessing because it is prohibitive.

    • ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      5 months ago

      There’s a good chance you are mistaken. It was not specified which type of mile they are referencing.

      The only sensible mile to use would be the Scandinavian mile (10.000m). = 6000km range.

      Another possibility is the nautical mile (1852m). = 1.111,2km range.

      And there are plenty of other “miles” to choose from.

  • Happywop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Oh please! I’d love to see Big Oil shrivel and die just like our societies and very planet have under their influence.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Too bad the lithium battery industry is no better. Those places are child labor slave mines and the environmental damage is astronomical…

      • bricklove@midwest.socialEnglish
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        5 months ago

        This is true but coal mining is just as bad and requires orders of magnitude (mineral fuels) more excavation than all of the other minerals combined. If we can stop mining coal by using renewables the total amount of mining will be a fraction of what it currently is. Plus many of the other minerals can be reused where coal just ends up as carbon in the atmosphere.

        • Pogbom@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          This is exactly it. Of course battery production is harmful too, but not only is it less harmful than other sources to extract, you also don’t have to burn batteries to generate the power. With fossil fuels, the extraction is massively more harmful and then the use itself creates even more pollution.

          • bastion@feddit.nlEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Trees are technically a green, renewable fuel (if humanity used them that way). The carbon dioxide released is that which was sequestered during the tree’s life.

            But oil is gathering material that accrued over vast amounts of time, and using that, dumping huge volumes of co2 directly onto the air. There’s no cycle happening there - just pure extraction for our extinction.