Battery based vehicles of today and tomorrow pt 2

[Gale Hawkins]

More AI robotics news beyond self-driving cars.

Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.

arstechnica.com

 

[sd455dan]

The Cuber truck should with more testing and development on the job be a real workhorse for the development of settlements on Mars.

Below is some new to me non fossil fuel type engines to use after a Mars bound spaceship is once in a vacuum.

Enjoyed that interview. Looking forward to the testing in space to prove it out.

After watching that, it almost seems we were mis educated in grade school and through high school.
The military dark black projects probably were where this scientist is now... right after world war 2.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

13 minute

Blip on AI in general, Tesla bot development and use in building vehicles, etc.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Stellantis: new hydrogen Ram Trucks will be made in Mexico

Looks like Ram is getting serious about hydrogen for trucks. That 5500 is a monster of a truck.

 

[FPGT72]

It's good to see you and Elon Musk in agreement on this point.

You know why Musk is against it? Tesla is maxed out, and not going to get any more .gov cheeze. So he is not getting your money anymore and the others will, so naturally he is against it.

 

[WM75Guy]

GM proceeds with its planned ICE death spiral by knocking the Malibu in the head to get it out of its misery and to make room for the resurrected Bolt EV.

https://www.motor1.com/news/718996/chevrolet-malibu-dead/

Good spin. If you have followed GM news you would know that GM has been transitioning from sedans to all SUVs as that what customers are buying. The Malibu was the last Chevrolet sedan. It has nothing to do with ICE vs EV. The same line will be used to make the Cadillac XT4 SUV so they can adjust output based on sales.

 

[FPGT72]

Good for them. They can keep them.

Good industrial manufacturing efficiency is enhanced by industrial robots, not humanoid robots…. Built and optimized for repetitive tasks. You’re getting confused by the humanoid PR BS.

You need to think just what can they be used for.

We all know those robot dogs, what in the world can a robot dog be good for. Turns out quite a few things. All the gages and such are electronic and such, and if something goes wrong a light will flash on a screen where one guy sits looking at images from cameras all day and reading a book. These dogs are programmed to know when fittings leak, have thermal cameras so they can "see" heat. They walk around plants and look at different things. If something is outside what they are programmed to see they will send an alert to the guy sitting in front of the cameras.

As the world is built for humans to work in, naturally a human shaped robot will have its uses. In time "robots" like you think of in car factories will replace the the buildings built for humans to do specific things, but until that day the human robot, and the dog robot will have its place.

It is a joke, and funny as hell.

 

[sd455dan]

CATL has a new battery already in trucks being tested in China.

it has a claimed 500 watt hour per kilogram. This will allow VTOL and aircraft use.

1 mile per second charging rate.

The leading NCA 2170 is ~260 watt hour per kg.
This is amazing it is double the current NCM NCA batteries.

CATL is also claiming a 50 year battery lifecycle.

Low degradation in cold weather

The video has a response from CATL correcting the Electric Viking and included the new condensed batteries capabilities.

500 watt hour per KG a few years back was considered impossible to achieve.

This battery might even be light enough to power and rival a full size modded 2 stroke chainsaws performance.

CATL launches condensed battery with an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg, enables electrification of passenger aircrafts

On April 19, CATL launched condensed battery, an innovative cutting-edge battery technology in Auto Shanghai. With an energy density of up to 500 Wh/kg, it can achieve high energy density and high level of safety at the same time in a creative manner, opening up a brand-new electrification...

www.catl.com

 

[ultrarunner]

Seeing is believing…

Too often early announcements of breakthroughs only to walked backed.

Battery breakthrough is the recurring theme and hope to see it in my lifetime.

 

[Grumpycat]

Seeing is believing…

Too often early announcements of breakthroughs only to walked backed.

Battery breakthrough is the recurring theme and hope to see it in my lifetime.

I remember when the Tesla Model S 85 was finally accepted as a real mass produced EV, the basement dwelling internet experts decided Moore’s Law was in effect, range would double every 18-24 months much as CPU clock speed did for a long time.