Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

That’s why interest in unconventional solutions for energy storage has taken off in recent years. Some companies have landed on thermal storage. Energy storage has two main factors—how fast it can be charged and discharged (the spigot) and how much total energy it can hold (the bathtub). But the space is still young.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

To store 50 hours of energy from a 1-megawatt power capacity wind turbine (50 megawatt-hours), for example, a possible solution would be to buy traditional batteries with 50 megawatt-hours of energy storage, but they would come with 50 megawatts of power capacity. —Michael J. Commercialization.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? It seems like it still may be cheaper to just buy a well used Lotus Elise and modify it yourself. I think electric cars are the furture and this unit has some real world experience. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group.

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