Yeah, you're right but certainly will put a big dent in gasoline demand and
pricing. I heard numbers like >1000 miles on a charge will be the norm! In
our lifetime? Wow!
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 10:23 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, roxanna Mason wrote:
Well, once the solid state battery and supercapacitors are perfected the
internal combustion engine will become obsolete along with its highly
toxic, carcinogenic, flammable fuel - Gasoline. Not sure about diesel
engines though, I guess them too.
Somewhat, maybe. For ordinary consumer vehicles, quite possibly. For
locomotives and long-haul trucks, I have my doubts. For aircraft and
portable generators (emergency and otherwise), almost certainly not. To
say nothing of rockets! :-)
Unless we get really major breakthroughs in battery technology, chemical
fuels will be distinctly hard to replace for some things. Biofuels or
synthetic hydrocarbons (with the carbon coming from CO2) are almost
certainly a better answer for the more difficult cases.
Henry