E machine game changer?

Coyote Chris

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China is claiming a significant breakthrough in E technology.
Would this make a believer out of you if it is true? The current bugaboo as I see it is installing all those megawatt chargers....and I still dont like the fact that only specially trained shops can work on cars and maybe bikes if they are electric.

BYD's 2nd Generation Blade Battery (released early 2026) offers higher energy density (up to 200 Wh/kg), enabling 1,000+ km ranges, improved safety, and faster charging. It uses Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) chemistry and "flash-flow" technology, achieving 10-70% charge in just five minutes with new megawatt-level chargers.
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Key Features and Improvements of Gen 2 Blade Battery
  • Energy Density: Increased to roughly 190–200 Wh/kg, up from 140–165 Wh/kg in the Gen 1 battery.
  • Charging Speeds: Enabled by new flash-charging technology, allowing for a 10% to 70% charge in 5 minutes.
  • Performance & Range: Enables long-range EVs up to 1,000km.
  • Chemistry: Uses an LMFP cathode (Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate) and a silicon-carbon composite anode for higher performance, replacing standard LFP.
  • Durability: Enhanced lifespan, with some reports indicating over 4,000 cycles.
  • Safety: Continues to use a "blade" structure with improved 700°C extreme temperature tolerance.
 
I think that “advertising” by definition, always precedes the product and overstates the performance to elevate immediate sales in order to recover development and production costs as quickly as possible for maximizing profits. Customer safety and satisfaction are way farther down the list.
 
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Panniers, topcase, tankbag, enough space for comfortable seating of rider and passenger, perfect weather protection, maintenance free shaft drive, total neutral whilst precise handling, enough power for any situation/terrain, brakes that stop on a dime, a minimum range of 500km, a maximum refueling time of 10 minutes...

Anyone...?

Methinks I'll stick with my ancient ST1100 then... :dr11:
 
mikesim said:
I'm from Missouri... you wil have to "Show Me".

Mike
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Me too. But if someone credible tests one in say Vietnam, I would like to see the test. The whole point is IF the gen 2 is real and IF there are mega charging stations, it could be a game changer. Not for ME but for EV hounds.
 
Coyote Chris said:
Me too. But if someone credible tests one in say Vietnam, I would like to see the test. The whole point is IF the gen 2 is real and IF there are mega charging stations, it could be a game changer. Not for ME but for EV hounds.
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BTW, lots of scooters and e monowheels here in San Diego and sport bikes (ICE). No Harleys yet.
 
Manfred said:
Depends on how one defines "stupid." Communists leaders are stupid in many ways, always to the detriment of anyone other than themselves.
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Good historical debate! If leasders do things like get a lot of their people poor or dead, but they live like Kings, who is stupid?
 
Coyote Chris said:
Good historical debate! If leasders do things like get a lot of their people poor or dead, but they live like Kings, who is stupid?
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Not to get too political or bring my Christian world-view into this, I will say that history will judge brutes who have their boots on the necks of people rather harshly.
 
Manfred said:
Not to get too political or bring my Christian world-view into this, I will say that history will judge brutes who have their boots on the necks of people rather harshly.
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Maybe, but dictators care less. Don't matter to them.
 
Forget politics, let's talk physics. Even if you assume perfect delivery and battery density, the U.S. does not have anything even close to the extra electrical capacity to power more than a tiny fraction of vehicles. We would need at least double what we have now, and that means a lot of nuclear. The biggest advocates for EV are also the biggest opponents of nuclear.

Put in real world limitations (delivery loss, power bleed, motor inefficiency) and it becomes clear mass adoption of EV is about as likely as the atomic cars promised in the 50s.
 
Add to that cold weather battery performance and increased load for heaters and defrosters.

We are so committed to our highway system and traveling from suburbs to cities by cars. We give no thought to more efficient transportation. The most obvious solution to energy consumption (to me) is to drive less. We have retired our railroads and made them into recreational trails where I live. There is great pressure to shut down pipelines that would add more truck transportation of oil and gas. So I guess that we’ll keep driving our cars until we can’t.
 
America is too spread out for mass transit to be feasible. Mass transit can either be fast, so fewer service areas; lots of service areas, so slow; or get both speed and service with lots of vehicles. This is America's solution. The vehicles are just private. The choice is logistical, not ideological.

There are solutions to help or possibly even solve the problem, but they don't serve anyone's agenda. Eliminating the Jones Act would greatly reduce the need for pipelines and trucking. That's all trucking, not just fuel.

e-fuels have the potential to make IC engines carbon neutral. It essentially uses fuels (gas, diesel, etc.) as the battery. But it requires a lot of power we don't have. Less than EV though because transmission isn't needed. Self-contained nuclear generators (a new but real thing) on site might work, then it's just shipping fuel.
 
I have had my Ford (YUP Fix Or Repair Daily, Found On Road Dead) Maverick Hybrid for almost three years. It says Ford on the sticker, but the hybrid system was a joint Toyota-Ford creation. Getting just under 40mpg average. 50+ in the city, 35+ on the highway. I have yet to be able to tell when it switches from gas to battery to some of each.. They have that software perfected. Project those numbers to all the cars on the road, and the Arabs can keep their oil, and Elon can keep playing with his electric toys.
 
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I have had my Ford (YUP Fix Or Repair Daily, Found On Road Dead) Maverick Hybrid for almost three years. It says Ford on the sticker, but the hybrid system was a joint Toyota-Ford creation. Getting just under 40mpg average. 50+ in the city, 35+ on the highway. I have yet to be able to tell when it switches from gas to battery to some of each.. They have that software perfected. Project those numbers to all the cars on the road, and the Arabs can keep their oil, and Elon can keep playing with his electric toys.
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Hybrid is an excellent mitigation approach. Diesel-electric trains are some of the most efficient transport ever.
 
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