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Re:A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled... by andy_ppp on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:15PM (#42403979)
Does the engine and drive train weight make these calculations even better for electric vehicles?
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Re:A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled... by TOMDM on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:27PM (#42404082)
I feel like a good like to like comparison would be the density of battery + motors compared to the density of fuel tank, engine and drive train.
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Re:A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled... by adrian_b on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:13PM (#42404766)
Even more like to like would be to compare the battery with a fuel tank + a turbo-generator.

For any kind of battery, there will be a power threshold over which a fuel tank + a turbo-generator will be smaller and lighter.

So a useful comparison would determine those power thresholds.

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