EVs that go 1,000km on a single charge: Gel makes it possible

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Just skimmed the paper (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202305298).

In section 3.1 cycle life did not really convince me. Eyeballing the chart, on cycle 200, just 82.5% of the capacity remained.

Assuming (optimistically, I agree) that one cycle is 1000km, at 200 cycles and the given rate of capacity decrease, you would have traveled around 180 000 kilometers. Assuming average American drives around 23 000 km per year, that's nearly 8 years of use.

The above is somewhat of a best case scenario, but having the battery at 80% capacity after 8 years seems good to me.

I think the industry target right now is around 10~15 years 80% capacity. So yeah not bad for an emerging tech.

Especially if 80% of capacity is still dramatically higher than 100% of capacity for current tech.

1,000km -> 621.371miles

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