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Killerhurtz · 3353 days ago · link · · parent · post: Bosch says it will have a solid state battery on the market by 2020 that will double the range of electric cars at half the cost of today’s batteries.

operates at 178 degrees farenheit

will need a heating system

...Is this a joke? Do they honestly expect good battery life when the battery needs to heat itself up?

That's without mentioning the extra weight of insulation to avoid the batteries turning the interior of a vehicle into a poaching pot... and the weight of the heating elements.

I don't see this going to many places. Space, maybe?

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JoBrad · 3352 days ago · link ·

This could be a good thing, actually. I believe most electric cars already have cooling and heating systems for their batteries. If you don't have to cool it as much, then you don't spend that battery life.

+discuss+discuss

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Killerhurtz · 3352 days ago · link ·

That's a fair point - if they manage to make an energy-neutral or energy-cheap heating system, it may just take off (though I still feel like the temperature it operates at is insane - there will still need to be insulation for the user's sake).

Now we just have to see if it will deliver the promised performance.