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[-] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

That's...Not really that impressive. I use 145Wh/km during the summer (scandinavia) with mixed highway and main road driving, if I had a 150Kwh I could get that range easily. Long range with a humongous battery is pretty expected.

[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not really the point of the article. The point is that they've built a 150Kw pack that will fit into a sedan.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Or that they can replicate amazing results under test conditions rather than real world... you know, coming out of China which I don't trust anyway.

[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

650 miles on a 150Kw pack isn't some efficiency record.

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

No, but making a battery at a mass that allows for that kind of efficiency has to come with asterisks.

But I would assume that of any country's findings that result in a headline like this.

[-] sonori@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

I mean it’s 4.1 kwh/mi, which is very good on a battery that heavy. It’s not massive leap, but that gives me hope that real world mass production.

[-] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

The battery/car weight has way less impact on range than you'd think when just cruising on highway/main road where you have minimal/no accelerations from stopped. I barely see a difference in range between my car with just me in it and fully loaded with 4 people and luggage for 3 weeks of camping.

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