• Audi unveils new all-electric supercar prototype with solid-state batteries, 570
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https://electrek.co/2018/08/24/audi-pb18-e-tron-all-electric-supercar-prototype/
Pretty great that solid state batteries for cars are almost production ready. I'm looking at e-bikes and my problem with them is that they don't have the range to get me back home from one of my touge routes and they're heavy as fuck which is the last thing I want in a sports bike or sports car I'm waiting for Toyota's Sakichi battery https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/223311/ea8b1cdf-a9f9-4c3d-9bad-45a3bd1d288a/toyotabattery.png
The whole Sakichi battery thing was just an insane nonsense contest someone set up offering 1 million yen ($9000 today, probably somewhere around $150k considering inflation) for handing over an invention that would be worth what would basically be a blank cheque. The contest started in 1925 and only in 2008 did Toyota set up a battery division that isn't even through finishing a solid state battery, so I wouldn't hold your breath
I really dig the back, holy shit.
Not really sure what that graphic is supposed to represent, let alone hold hopes for that.
o god Audi Scirocco R8 mmmmm time to start selling myself
Fuck, well at least this solid state battery is real.... right? VW faked their emissions test but they wouldn't fake a whole battery.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love a magical better-than-gas battery, but solid state batteries are something to be very excited about once they finally make it out of development hell. Many impractical or frustrating things will become useful, devices that would be too dangerous otherwise due to lithium's disadvantages will become safe, and just about everything we use will be massively more convenient. The hobby grade batteries I use for my robot are around the 280W*Hr/L range and if they think they can really hit 400W*hr/L in the next 2 years with a better chemistry that can be more easily improved upon that would be pretty incredible.
Electric supercars are cool but it looks like Audi hired the team who designed the latest Civic Type R. It’s too damn complicated. Hopefully the production version will be cooled down a bit. Audi are great for making understated cars; this better not break that trend.
I find them to be waaay too understated. The goddamn RS4 looks like a regular A4 with a slightly sportier trim when next to the M3 CS. But generaly, Audis are too stealthy if they don't have a sport package or something, looking way too standard and outright boring when low spec.
Das a nice looking car, gimme one pls.
I saw the car and thought it actually looked pretty cool with some wonderful design adaptations from the R8, then I saw the back.. Yuck.. No thanks.
ya the Sakichi battery is a benchmark that a guy in the 20s proposed, and the only thing I can find on it is almost 10 years old.
Finally they built an electric concept car that doesn't scream "hey look at me I'm an EV!" I think the general prediction is that they will enter mass production for EVs in 2025. But it wouldn't surprise me if it was sooner.
For some reason it reminds me of the Audi RSQ in iRobot. Like if the movie was made today with updated ideas on what the future would look like. The rear also reminds me of that weird 'swarm' idea Audi had awhile ago for a tail light concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9XwP5k-qw
Reminds me of the taillights in Distance, which serve as your heat gauge for boosting/flying.
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