On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 2:30:56 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
> 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/
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> 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!
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> Moran!
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> John Kuthe...

You must have been smoking weed when they introduced the subject in class. Feel free to believe that cars run on solid state batteries. It's not my job to educate you in the things you should already know.

Namaste!