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New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries
MikeChino writes "As battery manufacturers race to produce more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, some scientists are looking to make the cars themselves a power source. Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery. Once perfected, scientists hope the substance will replace standard car bodies, making vehicles up to 15 percent lighter and significantly extending the range of electric vehicles."
I really hope we get this electric car thing figured out soon because I am just about sick of following smoke belching vehicles every day.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
I can imagine it would make a multi-car pile up quite exciting. Just another effort to make real life more like a Michael Bay movie.
Are you crazy? Dihydrogen monoxide kills over 4000 people a year in the US alone!
Are you crazy? Dihydrogen monoxide kills over 4000 people a year in the US alone!
Replace the 'dihydrogen monoxide' with 'hydroxyethane'.
It might not improve things, but it seems like more fun.
Once again, in less than 30 minutes the Slashdot crowd finds multiple fatal flaws in the results of years of work by highly-trained educated people. And frequently without even bothering to RTFA! Is there nothing we can't do?
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Car batteries want to be 200 to 300 volts.
Car batteries don't like being anthropomorphized.
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Dihydrogen monoxide is a gateway drug. Most adults who are addicted to hydroxethane drank DHMO when they were children.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery.
And it would make the neighbor's dog peeing on my car a pay-per-view moment.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
As they can round up the autobots (especially that prick bumblebee) and convert them directly into energon cubes!!!!!
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