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Re:Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade by whatever1 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:59PM (#27133253)
No, because newer iPhones are larger and have physically larger and heavier batteries that help them store more energy. iPhone 11 has a density of 250 wh/kg and the iPhone 4 was around 200 wh/kg.

That is again not even close to 300% increase

I am looking at apples documentation. Not sure where you folks are coming up with your imaginary numbers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191007202842/https://www.apple....

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Re:Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade by bronson on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:43PM (#27135502)
You're comparing less than ten years. Here's what I see, 2009-2019:

iPhone 3g: 4.5 Wh / 0.0335 kg = 134 Wh/kg

iPhone 11: 11.91 Wh / 0.047 kg = 253 Wh/kg

For a 1.9X improvement.

Agreed, consumers aren't seeing 3X. But they should be seeing better than 20%.

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Re:Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade by whatever1 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:20PM (#27135862)
Not sure where you found the data for 3g and whether they follow the same methodology as apple (the report shows up to iphone 4 which was introduced in 2010), but even if I assume that they are correct, what you are proposing is even more far-fetched.

That in 2010 something dramatic happened in the battery technology world and they doubled in density overnight. Hint: No they did not.

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