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Nothing about costs?

• ajb 3y ago
  The article claims that their tech should be cheaper than li-ion if manufacturing is scaled up. This is actually plausible, because there are fewer parts. Each li-ion battery consists of a huge number of cells which must each be manufactured with precision, whereas precision parts comprise only a small piece of a flow battery - most of it is just the four tanks This does seem a relatively promising tech. Cheaper and less flammable. One thing that don't mention is whether it's can charge conventionally as quickly as li-ion. If so then it could be a drop in replacement even without deploying electrolyte replacement stations.
  • davedx 3y ago
    Right, had to scroll a long way to find this but there is a quite outrageous claim that it’ll be cheaper: > Influit expects that its current generation of nanoelectrofuel, together with the entire ecosystem needed to produce, distribute, and recycle the fuel that the company is building around it, should cost $130/kWh when used in an EV. In comparison, lithium-ion batteries cost around $138/kWh. No details given of how they arrived at this figure. If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.
    • ajb 3y ago
      I wouldn't expect them to publish those details, cost structure is something most companies keep close. If you are a potential partner or investor and sign an NDA, then you might get details. The rest of us will have to wait and see