New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries 213
MikeChino writes "As battery manufacturers race to produce more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, some scientists are looking to make the cars themselves a power source. Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery. Once perfected, scientists hope the substance will replace standard car bodies, making vehicles up to 15 percent lighter and significantly extending the range of electric vehicles."
Good (Score:3, Funny)
Can't Wait. (Score:5, Funny)
The new material? DiHydrogen Monoxide (Score:1, Funny)
Step 1: Fill the cars with DiHydrogen Monoxide ...
Step 2: Hoist the car several meters in the air
Step 3: Place a paddlewheel connected to generator underneath
Step 4: Open the car door
Step 5:
Step 6: Profit.
Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)
You just need to learn how to be a leader.
Re:The new material? DiHydrogen Monoxide (Score:3, Funny)
Are you crazy? Dihydrogen monoxide kills over 4000 people a year in the US alone! [cdc.gov]
Re:The new material? DiHydrogen Monoxide (Score:3, Funny)
Are you crazy? Dihydrogen monoxide kills over 4000 people a year in the US alone!
Replace the 'dihydrogen monoxide' with 'hydroxyethane'.
It might not improve things, but it seems like more fun.
Slashdot does it again! (Score:5, Funny)
Once again, in less than 30 minutes the Slashdot crowd finds multiple fatal flaws in the results of years of work by highly-trained educated people. And frequently without even bothering to RTFA! Is there nothing we can't do?
NOBODY expects the Slashdot Community! The chief weapon of the Slashdot Community is presumption...presumption and arrogance...arrogance and presumption.... Our *two* weapons are presumption and arrogance...and cynicism.... Our *three* weapons are presumption, arrogance, and cynicism...and an overweening sense of entitlement.... Our *four*...no.... *Amongst* our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as arrogance, presumption...I'll come in again.
Re:Good (Score:1, Funny)
I really hope we get this electric car thing figured out soon because I am just about sick of following smoke belching vehicles every day.
The electrical components of my gas burning vehicle shorted and caused the rest of the vehicle to be consumed by flames in a very smokey manner, certainly smokier than other car I've observed. As the electric parts of the car were responsible for said fire, it seems resonable that electric cars will burst into flames more often than gas burning cars. Therefore, it can be logically deduced that electric cars will result in much more smoke than the fossil fueled alternatives.
Re:Problem with that (Score:3, Funny)
Car batteries want to be 200 to 300 volts.
Car batteries don't like being anthropomorphized.
Re:The new material? DiHydrogen Monoxide (Score:1, Funny)
Furthermore, DiHydrogen Monoxide is used by the Oil Companies, the Coal Companies, and the Tobacco Companies. And Big Pharma!
Re:Slashdot does it again! (Score:5, Funny)
This year it's February 14.
Thank you, thank you.
Re:Good (Score:3, Funny)
Algae grow in water, you fucking moron.
Re:The new material? DiHydrogen Monoxide (Score:5, Funny)
Dihydrogen monoxide is a gateway drug. Most adults who are addicted to hydroxethane drank DHMO when they were children.
Bonus (Score:5, Funny)
Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery.
And it would make the neighbor's dog peeing on my car a pay-per-view moment.
Re:Good (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)
Cellulosic butanol is way more exciting than cellulosic ethanol.
Fuckin' A! Whenever anyone even mentions cellulosic butanol I can barely contain my enthusiasm! ;-)
Re:Good (Score:3, Funny)
There is also the issue of having an electrical grid that can handle that. Charging a battery in minutes with enough power to get you hundreds of miles takes a non-trivial amount of power, no matter how good your battery is.
A simple fix would be to build more roads going downhill instead of blindly following the contour lines.
It would save a lot of power !
Megatron is pleased! (Score:3, Funny)
As they can round up the autobots (especially that prick bumblebee) and convert them directly into energon cubes!!!!!
Re:Good (Score:3, Funny)
All we need are two brushes on the bottom, and a slot to put the car in
voilà, no batteries needed!
woot!