Let's imagine a new battery that improves energy density 3 times with a 15-minute charge time. I bet you already understand the inherent problem here.

Now let's imagine a battery with 100 times the energy density of current designs with a charging time of one minute. Utopia!

Well, not so fast. Yea, many of you already know the problem of getting energy to your awesome battery. Using Ohm's law we know that a 100KWh battery would require a charge voltage of about 100 thousand volts at 100 amps for 5 minutes.

Now imagine half the US population trying to charge that awesome battery.

Charging times are not limited by battery tech (in a real world situation), but by the amount of power that can be drawn from the grid at the charging point. That means that if you have 4 charging stations, but only one car plugged in, you might get your current EV charged in 40min. But if 4 people turn up, it'll take 2 and a half hours for all of them. Having a battery that can be charged 3 times faster won't mean shit unless you have a several MW connection to the grid at every charging station. That requires an order of magnitude increase in the grid capacity, which means effectively replacing the entire electricity grid.

Do they have a 300% larger explosion radius as well? And explode 300% sooner than a Tesla?

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Don't be a lazy nigger and share an archived link too.

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I wonder how the battery fares with memory and declining capacity

Is a solid state battery just a capacitor? What happens if you short-circuit that battery? Is the fire also three times hotter?