Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[California]

So the question is, can a person in NJ plug in the charging cord to their electric vehicle, or is an attendant required?

It depends. Are the legislators of NJ owned by lobbyists?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

:thumbsup: New discoveries keep coming, will also be watching for news on Tesla Battery Day.

Shirley Meng, Maxwell’s DBE, Jeff Dahn & Goodenough’s Glass Electrolyte: My Tesla Battery Conspiracy - YouTube

Dr. Goodenough who is now 97 made possible for the EV's of today by inventing the Lithium Ion battery. In the 12 minute video below he talks about it is possible to Lithium with Sodium and the oceans are full off Sodium unlike Lithium. The second video is longer but covers his childhood to the Lithium Ion era.

Expert Opinion with Dr. Goodenough - The Future of Battery Storage (Expert Audience) - YouTube

ECS Masters - John B. Goodenough - YouTube

Solid State Batteries - has Goodenough nailed it again?? - YouTube

In an interview Elon Musk was talking about EV battery technology advances and that he may start on an electric airplane around 2030 due to batteries he sees coming down the pike that are in labs today. When the batteries get that good then the talk about EV batteries may be over and they will just become a commodity item that works for many miles with fast recharging.

Tesla Electric Plane: Plans, Timeline for an Elon Musk's Flying Machine | Inverse

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It depends. Are the legislators of NJ owned by lobbyists?

Probably since NJ won’t let you pump your own gas.

But then again, all legislators are owned by some lobbyist.

 

[California]

In an interview Elon Musk was talking about EV battery technology advances and that he may start on an electric airplane around 2030 due to batteries he sees coming down the pike that are in labs today. When the batteries get that good then the talk about EV batteries may be over and they will just become a commodity item that works for many miles with fast recharging.

He's visionary, if even a portion of his concepts pan out it will advance the state of civilization.

Meanwhile there are people expecting Tesla to fail. I suspect some of them don't believe it when they read Musk is the first to sent up re-usable rockets, and is the first to land a returning rocket on a barge in the ocean. Maybe these are the same people who 'just know' that the moon landing was faked. Anybody here want to fess up to such thinking?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

He's visionary, if even a portion of his concepts pan out it will advance the state of civilization.

Meanwhile there are people expecting Tesla to fail. I suspect some of them don't believe it when they read Musk is the first to sent up re-usable rockets, and is the first to land a returning rocket on a barge in the ocean. Maybe these are the same people who 'just know' that the moon landing was faked. Anybody here want to fess up to such thinking?

I agree about the advancing of civilization. What boggles my mind is how Musk is not focused on wealth. He put all of his $200 million from PayPal into Tesla and SpaceX and came close to losing both of them when he ran out of his own cash. The way he gathers talent from other companies is impressive. I just watched the TED talk below by the president of SpaceX who I see is the over the top President that Musk would require. It it was not for Musk pushing forward I do not think I would own the Leaf today. Elon Musk has put EV's in the minds of the world like no other person. Yes it is strange how some people think putting down the successes of Musk and his teams is their life calling. For me to think others would listen to me put down EV ownership when I did not own one would be foolish. EV's and travel to Mars is not for all but all should be excited to mankind advancements I would have thought. Cutting down a 14 hour flight to 1 hour is huge in my book as is covered in the Ted talk below.

SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 3 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell - YouTube

 

[Industrial Toys]

My Jury is still out on the moon landing. Sorry, I wasn't there. MUCH, I say MUCH about what we have all been lead to believe is false.

If you don't understand the nature of our reality, you absolutely don't know anything for sure.

 

[kco]

They are testing electric aircraft in Vancouver BC. Here's one article:

Vancouver seaplane company to test world痴 first all-electric commercial aircraft | Globalnews.ca

and a couple more:

World's First Commercial Electric Airplane Successfully Completes Test Flight in Canada

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/a-small-canadian-airline-using-a-63-year-old-seaplane-is-on-the-forefront-of-electric-powered-flight/2019/12/28/dd0c6694-228a-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html

 

[California]

How about vaccinating your kids? Flat Earth Theory?

 

[Industrial Toys]

There certainly is enough flat earth theory out there to leave me scratching my head. You do know, we once "believed" that?

 

[California]

There certainly is enough flat earth theory out there to leave me scratching my head. You do know, we once "believed" that?

Something that surprised me reading it recently was that it was only philosophy or religious theory, not provable, that other galaxies exist in addition to our Milky Way. Finally around 1920 better telescopes combined with analysis of colors observed in some elements in the sky, led to a new theory that those celestial objects of different colors were in fact other galaxies at various distances from our own. Moreover, the observations seem to show everything is expanding with the most distant galaxies moving away faster than near ones. A century ago discussing this would have been incomprehensible.

I wonder what discoveries will be made in the future.