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Originally Posted by accord1999
Charging 75% of a 80 kWh battery in 5 minutes requires an average charging rate of 720 KW, that's a lot of high current, high voltage electricity to move, plus there'll be significant amounts of waste heat that needs to removed and li-ion batteries long generally don't last under those conditions.
And as for battery advances, they're probably #1 in terms of hype (maybe just after fusion) where new advances are announced weekly but turn out to be useless for mass production. I wouldn't expect revolution, just the standard slow evolution and iteration in other fields.
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Yet these advancements are happening and are being patented all the time. Again, technological advancements don't come to the market as quickly as we hope, mostly because of legal implications. When they do they normally arrive with little noise because the appear to be old hat. A great example of this is solar cell technology. They have been getting better and better every year but have not got much notice because tha advancements were announced three or four years ago. Saying they are hype is ridiculous as we see the results of research in many technologies around us. You probably talk or post on one of them multiple times a day.