While these things have occurred in the past. I believe the most important factor is the source of the claim.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 26, 2017, at 9:52 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: >>> what would [be Goodenough's] motivation to make an outrageous or bogus >>> claim. It is not like he is shopping his invention to venture >>> capitalist. >> >> I doubt that he's doing anything like that. But all kinds of bad things can >> nuke a promising product between the lab and the marketplace... > > Thanks David, for an excellent summary. And these are just *some* of the ways > that promising new battery technologies have been kept from becoming > mainstream. > > There are many more as well! Besides the ones David mentioned, here are a few > more examples that come to my mind: Bipolar lead-acid (Electrosource > Horizon), nickel-cadmium (several manufacturers), nickel-zinc (Evercel), > nickel-iron (Edison), and the zinc-chlorohydrate (Energy Development > Associates). > >> The range numbers sound a lot like the Leaf's, don't they? It seems as if 20 >> years haven't really changed much in that respect, they've mostly just >> brought the price down to affordable levels. > > The price reduction is basically the result of manufacturing large enough > quantities. It can be argued that lithium "won" because manufacturers found > enough customers who were willing to pay an enormous price premium (laptop > computers). That attracted investors, and paid for the R&D and factories to > build them. Once this had been done, the price came down so they could expand > into other markets (EVs). > > -- > Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more > violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move > in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
