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Posted on 10the February 2024 |
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I am fed up with seeing articles about "the 600 mile battery". There is no such thing. The latest offender is Yahoo Tech News, but there have been dozens of such reports, including this story on Forbes, a well respected news source. For one thing, the amount of range an electric vehicle (EV) has depends on how many batteries are in the vehicle. It is possible to give a Tesla 600 miles of range simply by adding more batteries, but then there would be no room for luggage and passengers. For another thing, it is likely that most EV manufacturers will use the new generation of higher capacity batteries to reduce cost and weight (thus increasing performance), rather than keeping the same battery weight/size and increasing range. If these news sources can't understand these basic facts of physics, then maybe they should refrain from writing about EVs and their batteries. | |