On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 7:23:58 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 2:01:43 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
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> > A WHAT?? Do you KNOW much about electricity, batteries and electric vehicles? I DO! TONS!!!
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> > What you show concern with when you say "but I suppose that's a lot better than getting incinerated in a white hot electrochemical explosion"! What chemicals in a Leaf are likely to explode? Do you KNOW what chemicals are in a Leaf? I DO
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> > John Kuthe...
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> As far as I know, the batteries in electric cars are electrochemical storage devices. My guess is that, in a few years, we'll be using solid state batteries. At least that's the direction researchers are scrambling for. This probably does not bode well for Musk/Tesla and his Gigafactory.
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> https://futurism.com/massachusetts-s...ttery-company/

Lithium batteries ARE SOLID STATE you MORAN!! Every BIT SOLID STATE! Lithium melts at 357F and nothing IN a Leaf burns at that temp!! And if something DID melt the lithium, so what? The FIRE would be more of a problem than the melted lithium!

Moran!

John Kuthe...