NexPower V3 hybrid battery unveil - Sodium-ion battery

Here's an extreme example to make it simple. Let's say I'm planning to drive 400 miles on a highway that is perfectly flat and at 65 mph the entire way, no stops. Will it matter if my HV battery has a capacity of 1ah or 100ah? In this case, it's more likely the 10ah battery car will have the lower mpg due to the extra weight.

 

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I see a lot of words from folks without a PIP and without an upgraded battery...

 

They do, or stay closely to the same mpg. Im not arguing they dont, unless you stack a lot of them up until you start experiencing diminishing returns because of weight issues primarily.

Not that it makes sense, but pretend someone attempted to make their prius to match a tesla for battery capacity. Extra weight would reduce mpg since itll be a signficiant weight at that point. It doesnt make it cost efficient to charge a EV with any gas or diesel generator, and hybrids take advantage of electromagnetism for its alternatives to torque converters, clutches, gears, and regenerative braking. Batteries are meant to be short term pump and dump, nothing more. EVs on the other hand only fuel is battery, so it makes sense to increase its capacity. While you will most likely gain some mpg by increasing battery, its only the mpg you were losing beforehand from factors like wasted electricity that couldnt be collected in time.

There is a video on youtube that shows two toy cars both going down a ramp, one with a battery and motor, other with nothing. They both end up at the same spot just at different times. The law of physics about energy not being created or destroyed applies everywhere. Adding more batteries is more equivilent to adding a bigger fuel tank for gas. It shouldnt have any effect on mpg.

i will end by saying, the amount of batteries from a stock prius is a good balance of not too little to where you cant store enough electricity to use, and not too much where its too costly and ends up removing space and adding weight. I would personally love to have a 20 gal tank even if it does reduce mpg by a point or two. But you know, they have options like prius prime, rav4 prime, etc. for people that do want extra batteries so they can drive 40 miles on EV. However, they dont sell because people dont wanna pay $20,000 more for plug in option, so their supply is limited.

 

Something sounds off. 60k coke cans and 14 cubic feet?
Convert 60k coke cans to ounces=60k x 12 =720k ounces
Convert to gallons 720k/128 =5625 gallons of coke
A 16' x 32' swimming pool at 4.5' average depth holds ~17,000 gallons

maybe I'm missing something