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byShanghaiBill ( 739463 ) * writes:
1,000 miles of range, it said, and requires refills of distilled water about every 200 miles.
My car has a range of 6000 miles. That is how often I have to stop to change the motor oil. Of course, I also have to stop every 300 miles to get some gas.
byjandrese ( 485 ) writes:
I think it is 1000 miles of range until you have to replace the batteries entirely, which really isn't very far. It's not quite enough range to get you from Boston to Atlanta.
byAndy Dodd ( 701 ) writes:
Yeah. It looks like these are nonrechargeable cells.
In short, a car that consumes aluminum instead of gasoline to run.
There's a brief reference to rechargeable zinc-air cells - but the aluminum-air cells seem to be nonrechargeable.
bymlts ( 1038732 ) * writes:
There is a misnomer: These are not batteries but fuel cells. The way the aluminum is "recharged" is by hauling the alumina (aluminum oxide) back to a smelting place and spending 15,000 watts per kilo of aluminum made in electricity.
My concern about this type of battery is the fact that it requires so much energy to "recycle". Already, 1/20 of all US electric output goes to smelt aluminum, and going with aluminum/air fuel cells would add to something that is a ferocious energy user. (Not to knock the alu
byChris Burke ( 6130 ) writes:
15,000 watts per kilo of aluminum made in electricity
For how long are 15,000 watts expended? Power usage isn't meaningful in this context. Need a duration to get energy.
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