Graphene Manufacturing Group is doing it. They make graphene from natural gas inexpensively. They have graphene-aluminum coin cells out to customers for testing. The results have been very good (or better) so far, and they have started making pouch cells. Shares for the company are still cheap right now. Just sayin'.

@@andrewkaiser7203 So still a carbon based process.

@@Mordalo But very little, I think. Remember the material is only one atomic layer thick, so you can cover big areas with almost nothing.

@@Mordalo Yes, but not CO2 intensive. It's the production of the CO2 form of carbon that's the problem. Battery storage maximizes the efficient use of energy, letting us use less of the forms of energy production that create CO2.

@@andrewkaiser7203 True to some degree. (see what I did there? 😅) That said, there is no issue with CO2. There were studies 70 years ago that pointed out that oil is abiotic.

totally agree, I think this would shed some more light on all those "great disruptors".

i just learned how these nuclear diamond batteries he talked about once are sort of a scam lol

We will indeed be doing some of those in the future, probably starting with Energy Vault (spoiler alert - it hasn't gone well for them!)

it's called filling space to earn an income on KZfaq. i.e. clickbait. next.

@@JustHaveaThink Oh yeah, I saw a couple videos by Adam Something and Thunderf00t. Not looking too good for em haha

Yeah, funny impersonation of Robert Llewellyn of Fully Charged

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it! :-)

As always a Great video!! 👍🏿 Thank you.

@@JustHaveaThink honestly that and the mommy/daddy/cupcake thing was hysterical. Totally cracked me up. Nice work on this one!

"Vaguely science-based"... endearing humility and even more endearing content and intent.

Wow, thank you!

I heard once that if you can't explain something complicated to a random person sitting next to you so that they can understand it, do YOU really understand it?

@@McSkumm Well, that is not necessary true. People didn’t always understand Srinivasa Ramanujuan🤷

@@McSkumm not everyone would make a good teacher, even when they know their subject.

Napeleon was presented a full aluminum armor (If i can remember) and said (Paraphrasing): i want 1 for every of my soldier. Then the scientist said: Sorry that armor took all the country's aluminum supply. Of course that was when aluminum had to be naturally found without chemistry treatment, meaning it was rare. The advantage with graphene, its cost is high because the way it is currently created, the basic material (carbon) have a near 0$ cost. By using cheaper method, i can see that really coming to market

The cap of the Washington Monument was extremely expensive.

Rare earth minerals are expensive for the same reason I've read.

@@dianapennepacker6854 Not exactly, but its not a bad comparison, most rare mineral are so "rare" that they cannot be extracted "alone". Sometime, like Indium (Used in phone screens) are a biproduct of Zinc mining (Basically you open a zinc mine, then when extracting it, you get a very small % of other minerals, but it is not your main extracting mineral). Also, minerals like Germanium have a annual world production calculated in KG rather than tons or millions of tons.

There is a nickel deposit in Canada, it is believed to be the remnant of a nickel-iron asteroid impact. There’s a lot more cheddar in the asteroid belt, trillion$ of it.

Cross platform and inter disciplinary co-operation could facilitate faster adoption and application of all this new technology...if only profit schemes would allow it

And you're younger than me! Imagine how I feel!

@@stellieford6183 I could rant on all day about this. I think there ought to be be a "Minister for Inter Disciplinary Co-operation", but no other ministers would cooperate with him! One example would be in the production of hydrogen by electrolysis, apparently they just throw away the oxygen produced. They burn propane to produce CO2 for greenhouses, why not use gas from a bio digester to drive an engine to generate electricity and use the exhaust in the greenhouses? The list is endless.

@@gregbailey45 I guess you're lost in a cloud of confusion and amazement, I'm heading that way.

Hehe. Glad you enjoyed it :-)

@@JustHaveaThink you're getting a HUGE amount of SPAM scammer comments on this video.😥

you nailed it. well said.

Even at ,$20k, there are people who have never bought a new car. I drive E85. Fuel at the moment is 60c a litre and only 15% gasoline

It is tempting to see the future as an extension of the past, e. G. to do with EVs the exactly the same thing as with ICE, but it does not have to be that way. So the scale of the problem may be far less daunting. 1. With more car sharing services coming up, ownership rates could drop by over 90%, studies have shown a shared car can replace 18 owned cars. Which is a far better use of capital, since a personally owned car is only driven very little and parked 90-95% of the time. Ownership is actually far more expensive than people assume, like 200k$ over 20 years on average, taken together everything. 2. For cities automotive transport is highly inefficient in its number of people moved, land use, congestion, accidents, infrastructure cost etc... So obvious solutions like well developed public transport and bicycle lanes could reduce the required amount of cars even more... Meaning the actual number of electric cars needed could be a tiny fraction of the number of current ICE cars.

The charging speed determines the infrastructure. At the moment, it can barely cope with the tiny number of EVs on the road. 100% EVs will be chaos but with a fast charge we could keep our existing "filling station" approach.

Surely with a faster more frequent charge, you can accept smaller batteries which = more EVS?

so would I.. I'm 82

Me too.

The problem with living forever is eventually you find yourself floating in space with black holes spritzing away their atoms for a few eons. Boring as hell.

In the words of Dave Allen on ageing: "one more year, damn you!" 😆

@@rdewey51 True. Arbitrarily long life then. Choose my own time of death.

Cheers Nick :-)

Pfizer and Moderna were apparently able to put it into mass production.

@@paulslevinsky580 ?????

Cheers Dennis. Much appreciated :-)

Flux capacitor or bust!

@@BrBill I think both of you will find only a functioning Arc Reactor can provide the 2.21GW the Flux Capacitor requires to operate. ;)

@@-_James_- Sold

I’m just waiting for sodium ion batteries for grid scale power storage

the company Hydrograph is able to mass produce graphene, cheaply!

300 miles isn't exactly "short range" by the standards of today's EVs. Graphene batteries are unlikely to be cheap any time soon. Lithium Iron Phosphate is likely to be the go-to for low cost EVs.

Searching for improvements, modest or otherwise, is always a good thing to do - as long as it's not the only thing you do. We also need to search out new ideas, new methods, and work where there is a solid promise of breakthroughs. Leaps ahead are usually the result of a lucky discovery that was unanticipated. Except that I don't really believe in luck. If you're doing solid work, exploring the unknown always takes you into caves and over cliffs, but it also tends to produce that luck that gets you where you never knew you wanted to be. Incremental improvement research makes for more predictable progress, but it doesn't get you the big bang. You need both. It really doesn't matter if we "lack the time". Good work takes the time it takes, and discoveries come when they will, needed or not. All we have control over is doing the work. Needless to say, you also want to work as smart as you know how.

I'm 74 and am still a much better driver IMHO than 90+% of the road users I come across. Every time I drive Sydney to Penrith (NSW Australia) on the M4 motorway, I have this proven to me!

@@gregbailey45 I'm not going to say that's impossible, but for a 74 year old to be a better driver than 90% of the other drivers on the road would be a statistical anomaly.

So you base your agreements on how it will make your life more comfortable at your age then the outcome of the generations to come ?

@@sandybanks2865 the only statement of agreement I've made is that the pace of change is increasing, and that has nothing to do with my comfort.

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)

For only $10,000.

There are some good ones already: Small-scale distributed off-river pumped hydro. Liquid metal batteries (Ambri) Solar thermal Molten Salt

Thank you :-) I appreciate that :-)

Nicely spotted :-)

And there lies one of the biggest problems, the electricity grid needs to be scaled up to support those high power stations. Those stations will need their own batteries to buffer and fill when the energy price is low. So much to do, tech is here but market is flooded with so many solutions it get's very hard to pick the right one. Even if you pick the right one at that moment it might be obsolete before you reach the Return of Investment point.

Yeah, people do not realize that when filling up a 100Kwh battery in 1 minute either needs to be extremely high amps or very high voltage.... When my Model Y is charging up at 600 amps initially is already scary high!

@@AndreVanKammen kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prKTpK1jqcnQdZs.html

@@AndreVanKammen Yes, with more EVs, more electricity will be needed, but your assumption that it will require more "high power stations" is flawed. A future smart-grid will be more decentralized. It is the combination of load management and demand balance that needs to be developed. Solar, Wind, and Hydro have a better LCOE. In this case ROI is insufficient (ROInt required). Also, it took decades to develop a petroleum industry to service the growing number of ICE vehicles. Even today refinery capacity is a limiting factor.

@@chrisconklin2981 still no urgency?

would you consistently expose yourself to 3 MilliGausse (from Magnetic Field) in a Tesla Car for 10+ years ???? you do realize every sidewalk in Los Angeles California has a MilliGausse reading of between 1.5 - 6 MilliGausse? so far this mG exposure is causing the homeless bums to lose control of their bowels. this is why these people keep shitting and pissing in place.

Are you _sure?_

@@johnburns4017 of course this is LOW Level Exposures. Currently there is no research on this. Generally anything considered "carcinogenic"/"bad" will cause problems/cancer within 10 years. These are odds & probabilities.

It can.

"Space Tourism" is going to destroy the ozone layer before space elevators could come online. Selling Earth atmosphere to billionaires was a catastrophic mistake. I'm not even sure who would fund space elevators. Whatever we need to do to end "Space Tourism" though, I'm all for it.

Arthur C. Clarke would be very proud of you Dan :-)

I will stay forever on the fence about space elevators. If it ever becomes truly viable, the cost of building one will be prohibitively expensive for a long time to come.

What if an air locked tube from earth to the vacuum of space were built? Load up the transport module. Shove it in the airlock. Close the sealed door. Open the top. And whoosh! It gets sucked up into space using the vacuum of space as its propulsion to lift it. Or would gravity prevent it from lifting off?

@@kentneumann5209 Haha, you're funny. Check out aerostatic pressure, it explains why things are not as you imagine.

Along those lines, I'd like to see a broad peek at tech with the most abundant materials (e.g., carbon, silicone, iron, calcium, aluminum) vs. tech that relies on precious/rare/hazardous substance (lithium, silver, cobalt, platinum, rubidium). I'd expect the former to be making headway on a route to dominance since cost, including life cycle and environmental costs, will IMHO ultimately decide the winner(s).

Exactly. If it took 15 minutes, that would be fine for the vast majority of people on a road trip. I can't even use the restroom and buy a coffee on a road trip in less than 10 minutes unless it's the middle of the night. (Rest stops in the US are often crowded, and Starbucks is slow.) Most charging should be done overnight when the car is not in use, which doesn't require speed.

Exactly. And fueling stations would like it because most of their profits isn't fuel, it's the stuff people buy in the store. 8 minutes of shopping/ eating, and off you go.

At fuel stations there is often a que for each pump despite it only taking 1 minute to fill a tank. What will the ques be like when it takes 8 minutes? It would cause chaos both with the line stretching down the road and with disputes between drivers.

@@juskahusk2247 Firstly, we have to realize most people will not fill a completely empty battery. Usually 50%, so 4 minutes. That's not too different than a gasoline pump. Most time is taken unscrewing the cap and doing the transactions. EV can securely connect payment info directly through the charger without any additional steps. Second, many charging areas either resemble or are in parking areas. There are far more charging outlets than gasoline nozzles. Overall, this technology has the potential to reduce fueling times. But is that so important? Are we better off with McDonalds and e.coli recalls than when there were family owned actual restraints all over?

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 A lot of the time people make assumptions and blame their food poisoning on the place where they bought their food but a lot of the time it is caused by eating with unwashed hands.

like anything in research world, any breakthrough technology doesn't guarantee it will be the best technology for the masses... it can be stuck with high producing cost, supply issue, can't be scaled up, hit the development limit, etc... letting the market sort it out means at the very least the product already have the capability to scale up... for the rest of the factor only time will tell if that technology hit the jackpot or not...

The market is often the most efficient way to discover the "right choices." Not always, but very often markets do that more efficiently than central planners. It is impossible for a central planner to know all of the information of every market participant. Therefore the central planner can't set prices as efficiently as all of the people in the market, which means the central planner can't allocate resources as efficiently as a market. This is very basic economic theory. When markets are distorted by economic regulations, those efficiencies can be and often are reduced.

@@LoanwordEggcorn Markets are driven by inertia Patents and people playing speculation games via automated trading systems ... and protecting their own interests and profits even if it means hostile takeovers and asset stripping. So society has to step in to make sure the naughty boys and girls who only get paid to make money move to make them money actually A/dont mess up the good ideas and teams that can actually make something... B/ tell them whats needed and by when so that the rest of the population of the planet can tell them whats actually needed rather than them and their clever advertising friends endlessly selling us useless throw away junk and unrealistic life styles for a species that is litteraly running out natural basic resources, soil clean drinking water and Air you can breath without it damaging your life.

there is no better way than letting market decide .. don’t try to patronize .. that’s the most organic way of development ..

@@sudeeptaghosh The markets are a large part of what got us into the Environmental and economic messes we find ourselves in .... Economists and businesses are inevitably simplistic and short termist. Political and Economic ideologies just dont stand up and deliver when you are facing complex Environmental and global problems. Ive studied both economics govt and commerce as well as Earth/Environmental Sciences Agriculture and Forensics .... and in that time ive also seen human population double in that time and the Ecological damage increase and spread in every continent and global system. We have reached the tipping points because those market driven systems mostly work in the same tunnel vision myopic ways. ..and are largely controlled by the same sorts of Get rich get power driven individuals. I was born at the heart of The Industrial revolution and that made a lot of the stuff that the largest Empire the worlds seen, invented and traded for better or worse... and the wealthy and power hungry will always take risks with other peoples lives and failed to take due care . They also always try patronising those who really do stand back learn and watch and disagree with the repeated patterns and history created and realise we need to take a longer view. There are few more educational practices to observe than forestry and food production.... but i could also lead you through countless industries. Economics is not a science, no more than a lot of Social science they are attempts to explain and quantify behaviour. The behaviour of many of the individuals involved is faulty if not deviant in the larger context. Governing populations so desperate and short lived they repeatedly fail to develope a more mature overview of the fact that we collectively need to grow up and plan what solutions will work given the life support thermostat is starting to switch off... and is being poisoned ... by the same people as your advocating should be given carte blanche again, to do what they've been doing for millennia .....before even Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations.

Also largely unnecessary. Conductive charging is fine for most uses.

In the mid-1980's, I worked for a contract engineering company. Their specialty was evaluating emerging technology. Toyota asked us to look at a "Paper Only System." Solar panels worked during the day to charge a battery pack in the garage which, at night, would recharge the car. We told Toyota that the practical implementation would be 35 to 50 years. I guess we were not too far off the mark.

I'll believe it when I see it in mass production Christine.

@@Professor-Scientist fair enough… but I never thought I’d be walking around with a cordless telephone/powerful computer in my hand when I was growing up and yet here we are!

EV batteries are already made of 100% recyclable materials. Lithium ion battery recycling is already a thing.

​@@incognitotorpedo42 It's not very developed, but yes, lithium is recyclable with 100% recovery potential

Absolutely. There's lots of transformational tech in the pipeline

Agreed, I have emails from both BP and Shell stating this is the direction they are heading as part of their strategy. Although personally I feel mass ownership of individual vehicles is not a long term solution anyway. If you want a good read, tomorrow's energy, Hydrogen fuel cells by Peter Hoffman

Cheers Carl. Much appreciated.

There is existing tech for making, storing, transporting, and using H2 with some ease. New catalysts make making H2 easier and cheaper and more efficient, making ammonia for transport using new catalysts (this is more volume-efficient than liquid H2 and doesn't need to be cryogenic and can use existing mature transport methods), a new catalyst for reforming ammonia to H2 at the user's end. All developed by CSIRO, and in combination make H2 infrastructure entirely possible and cost-effective.

@@thekaxmax Thank you !

Same applies to solar panels. Hardly ever is cooling installed while on hot sunny days the efficiency decreases by up to 50% due to the temperature of the panels, they get burning hot by the radiation that is not converted to electricity. With a simple cooling solution you can get double the power out of your solar panels!

Charging stations are currently badly designed. They can only charge one car in one space and you have to wait for the car to be moved afterwards. As charging times decrease, we will need one charger shared over say 6 parking spaces connected by 6 cables all at the same time. The charger will cycle round, charging each car in order of their connection time, automatically read the cars ID required charge and charge rate and deduct $ from its account whilst the owners get a coffee, etc. The top of each charger will show the estimated waiting time for each charger so on arrival you can choose an empty charge space which shows the shortest waiting time if you are in a hurry. Encouraging people to spend whilst taking a charge break will be big business.

at the rate and shape things are going right now, that isn't going to happen anytime soon, perhaps in 10 years in the earliest and in the new world which will come after this clusterfu....

The incentive to achieve production of graphene at scale is (like you say) huge. That's why I hold shares of several companies in this space.

Graphene could replace copper in power transmission, circuits, simi-conductors and structural components. Your entire car could be made of graphene, motor included (except the windows perhaps). Your entire car could weigh half- tonne instead of 3 tonnes. But that's probably "10 years away"...

would grade not also be pretty important? physical and certainly electrical properties are really impressive only when it's essentially flawless

@@LunarLaker Good point. I think low-grade graphene (aka platelet grade) is suitable for anode applications because it is just a few layers thick. This is not costly to make using graphite exfoliation. This grade of graphene is also useful as a structural additive in composites. High-grade graphene (1-2 layers) is produced differently, using CVD (chemical vapor deposition), and is more costly but still doable. I’d love to see a more detailed video about these issues.

Whats up with the sailboats? Also, your cars wont last that long because in about 8-10 it will be nigh impossible to find parts for them.

I hope so too!

Definitely! I mean, who drives 500km, takes an 8-minute break, and then drives another 500km? I need my half-hour break to eat/drink/stretch my legs anyway. This can be useful for semi trucks though.

Yeah, I keep telling that to people as well, but I guess for a lot of people they just don't have a parking space where they can charge near their home.

That might be true in Europe, but in the USA, Australia, Canada, NZ etc people need vehicles capable of fast refuelling over 1000km trips.

@@tomsemmens6275 The US is the exception actually. Australia the average is still only 36.4 km (21,5 miles). The average is much more interesting than the outliners, if we can reach for example 80% of the world drivers with this kind of charging we've already come a long way.

@@tomsemmens6275 excuse my ignorance, but do you really drive 310 miles, take an 8-minute break, and then drive another 310 miles? I mean, for me, that would be 6 hours of non-stop driving, a pee break and another 6 hours of driving. How do you drive over there?

😂

8 mins to charge for a EV with 500 mi range. It has nothing to do with the speed. At least that is what I understood.

@@janami-dharmam I think nico is aware of that, he's just making a joke :)

Yes. This is all likely. Tesla has always had plug-and-charge. It's incredibly easy and reliable.

This is only true if you want to make money by restricting knowledge (secrets) or its application (patents). Otherwise a lot of people could work with the same technology in parallel and independent of each other - sharing further insights. And parallel means fast. See open source development, or implementation of standards (ISO, DIN etc.). That means slow development is artificial because the limitations are intentional.

They usually start small, like AA/AAA and coin batteries. Then larger and larger.

@@martinweitzmann8341 You mean government should develop the batteries? Alongside the private sector?

@@Moses_VII no

The latter, as the gac displayed last year was done off one of their custom built 480kwhs chargers. Publicly right now 350kwhs is the max and that is well under 5% of all dcfc world wide. Growing quickly for sure, but still fairly rare overall.

Special high-output chargers will be needed. Not just for this car, but in general. The majority of current public chargers are _not_ capable of delivering several hundred amps/kilowatts. And the electrical grid will need to be massively upgraded. It currently struggles under the higher demand caused by increasing AC use as summer days get hotter. Adding thousands of electric cars (in just one "region") simultaneously drawing 100kW - 500kW each (just guessing at future needs) will blow up the current system.

@@LizardVideoDude EVs also stabilize grid systems by mopping up excess energy in the grid, reducing baseload power stations and stand-by power generation. Excess wind and solar power, plus return-to-grid stabilization. EVs don't typically need to charge at any given set time, especially since the actual use is 1/30th of the day, typically, so can be used for grid balancing. "Smart grid" efficiency may be more important than size. I think your concerns will be more for long trips and vacation travellers, freight transport. Either way, yes, the electric grid was built when there were 2 Billion people on planet Earth. It's not designed to handle 9 Billion people. Especially when 1 billion of them waste power like there's no tomorrow (and seem hell-bent on making sure there literally isn't one.)

@@LizardVideoDude the simple answer to that is all EV’s must be plunged in all the time that’s the part of the grid that needs grid grade access with control. So all the parts of the whole system knows what to do by knowing what all the other parts are going to do! The cars will make a net gain to the power capacity of the grid at any given time, mass transit of kids with school buses could be beneficial to everyone built be more a portable grid storage device that also provides safe clean transportation for the kids! But that could shut petroleum down hardly worth mentioning amount but still they fight like hell to choke the air the kids have to breathe like it’s nothing to everything. When of course it has the only means to poison everything it touches! What else in nature naturally changes the climate this fast?

Oh, so comparable Transport costs of Train?

@@beerenmusli8220 Possibly, sans energy intensive infrastructure, and able to go off the tracks so to speak.

Well said, what we need is investments into R&D into better battery technologies and fusion energy, no money being wasted on solar/wind bs.

If only we could use puppy urine for fuel :)

@@simongross3122 it is a good fertilizer for growing biofuels

@@carlbrenninkmeijer8925 Yes it is. I want to see a dog-led revolution in biofuel production. I imagine a forest with lots of trees with special puppy-pee collectors. As a bonus, the trees will extract co2 for us. We're onto the next game-changer :)

Why not plug the dog directly into the car? Use it's walk as a means of generating electricity and collect the dog output to be used in an inbuilt methane converter?

@@twotone3070 I like the way you think. But some dogs do prefer a nice tree. Perhaps we can incorporate a tree in the car somehow