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230mph Electric Car
An anonymous reader writes "It ain't cheap, but Hiroshi Shimizu has finally shown off his latest electric car 'Eliica'. It accelerates faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo, and will cruise for 200 miles on a one hour charge. Stories at drive.com.au, and an image video and tech video. Interestingly, Shimizu believes that the Japanese motor industry is deliberately ignoring his invention and instead focusing on complex hybrids, as a simple electric engine dramatically lowers the cost of manufacturing, and will lead to a flood of cheap, mass produced cars from Chinese factories." A UK auto site has a story as well, including a test drive.
Oh?
Why are you sure it can be solved?
What do you know about battery engineering that thousands of professional scientists and engineers around the world, most of whom are as smart or smarter than you are and who have a hell of a lot more specific useful training in electrical physics and battery chemistry, don't know?
It's not just Wave a magic battery fairy wand. They're working hard on these problems, because electric cars are just one of many many things that could use really long life, rugged battery systems with high density.
So far it hasn't had easy answers.
An alleged breakthrough in production automobiles and their power plant, and the best they can do is a really fuzzy picture?
Doesn't this bother anyone else?