Burning Car Carrier in the Atlantic

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There’s progress on this. Lithium-iron phosphate on the low end, solid-state batteries on the high end.

Solid-state batteries are just starting to work. You can now buy early versions at Home Depot.[1] Not good enough for volume use in cars yet.

If 10-minute charging can be achieved, which looks feasible, chargers can replace gas pumps on a one for one basis.

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BTW. Yoshino created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, and (co-)won the Nobel Prize for it.

The company seems to be unaffiliated with the Nobel prize winner though: https://yoshinopower.com/pages/solid-state-technology (thanks @CTLaw for double-checking this)

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Or there is no relationship and the company just took his name.

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https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-recalls-24000-minivans-fire-risks-urges-owners-park-outside-2024-07-18/

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Something is strange about Yoshino.

Here’s a US trademark registration:

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97976526&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

This is CA secstate info on the registrantnt:

ALPHA STAR LLC (201913610090)

Request Certificate


Initial Filing Date 05/10/2019
Status Active
Standing - SOS Good
Standing - FTB Good
Standing - Agent Good
Standing - VCFCF Good
Formed In CALIFORNIA
Entity Type Limited Liability Company - CA
Principal Address 8676 ROCHESTER AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
Mailing Address 8676 ROCHESTER AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA,CA91730
Statement of Info Due Date 05/31/2025
Agent Individual TIAN LEI HAN 8676 ROCHESTER AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730

Here’s a JP registration filed by after the US was filed and by a JP applicant Yoshino Power Japan Co., Ltd.:
https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/JP502023000076067

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Hmm, you’re right – my source was wrong, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence that he’s associated with this company.

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Land Shark:

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Barstow is a major rest stop on the way to Vegas: outlet malls and In N Out Burger.

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“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive…” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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The cat must have had something to do with getting the dog to start chewing on the battery pack,

The dog’s name from now on will be Sparky :wink:

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Battery-powered trains:

My question – why batteries if they could use supercapacitors?

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Interesting how many utility-provided battery systems there are in CA:
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In the meantime, a friend traveling on West coast has shared with me a video of an arcing power line, even without wind:

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