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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: harnon on February 21, 2012, 08:25:38 pm
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I'm a big fan of these guys, who are making all electric race cars with 800bhp+ (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/890903-will-the-lola-drayson-b12-69-ev-change-the-face-of-electric-cars) :o Apart from looking great and being totally insane, there are a lot of cool electric/electronic things happening on the car (inductive charging, energy recovery from suspension and aerodynamics, etc). Perhaps the most interesting from an electronics point of view is structural batteries - i.e. using the chassis (nickel impregnated carbon fibre) to store charge. These are potentially much lighter than current batteries, although there is a way to go before they can hold as much charge.
What do you guys think of this type of technology - old hat, way of the future, or something else? Actually, now that I think about it, could the secret of Dave's power supply enclosure be that it is a structural battery?!?!?!?
There are other topics talking about electric vehicles / cost / emissions etc so would be good to keep it on topic ;)
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I've never heard of it but, from your description, sounds like a great idea to increase the power/weight ratio. In addition to structural parts like the chassis, maybe the vehicle's "skin" as well.