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>I expect you're right. When I read "higher energy density" I think "closer to being an actual bomb", ha ha. https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Hammond's_Rimac_Cr
by incomingpain 5y ago
>I expect you're right. When I read "higher energy density" I think "closer to being an actual bomb", ha ha.
https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Hammond's_Rimac_Crash_(TGT) https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Hammond's_Rimac_Crash_(TGT)
That Rimac caught fire and they couldn't stop the fire for days.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/comments/7in8bc/comment/dqzzqfh/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/thegrandtour/comments/7in8bc/commen...
With higher energy density, for the most part the application will be that we provide a smaller battery for the same range and lower cost. that fire will still be a thing, it's just so much energy.
Here's the flipside. Did you know like 1/4 of firemen calls are for gasoline vehicles catching fire? I had a rust bucket that if you braked hard enough gasoline came out of the tank. We are dealing with explosive flammable fluid.
EV cars are tremendously safer and even if we invented a battery that only needed recharging twice a year and held immense power. It wouldn't be a bomb. It would just be a crazy fire.