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Originally Posted by JorgenM
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Great article, thanks for posting. This part explains why the technology isn't being used in personal transportation vehicles yet:
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We heard about the electric buses of your associated company BlueBus that are equipped with your technology. Are your solid-state batteries just doing sense in buses, or is an application in passenger cars or other commercial vehicles like transporters or trucks possible?
If you maintain the battery at a running temperature between 50 and 80 degrees Celcius, you may use it in any application. But to be honest, we were selling those batteries to PSA for a fun car that they created around 2015, but the commercial success was not there. Before you could use the car, you had to get the battery to the running temperature, which took some time. Being unable to use your car whenever you wish is not compatible with the mass market. That’s the reason why our product fits clients that use them constantly: 5 days a week for full-day operations. So this perfectly fits buses. Also, last-mile delivery trucks or industrial vehicles in harbours, ports and airports are well fitted to this use.
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They also explain that they've been developing this technology over the course of decades. Eventually it will come to vehicles we'd buy for personal use, but we're not there yet.
Incidentally, we are firmly off topic (sorry, Artemis) so I will move this into a separate thread if folks wish to continue the discussion.