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more about #liion gavscott: It reduces weight, yes, which is gold on a racetrack. 22 lbs lost on a race car is like a lottery win. But it's also shorter, so the weight it does ha... more » RainyDayInterns: People don't buy Apple and Porsche products because the cost of the individual parts are "worth it." It is when everything has been put together that... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: IIRC from an episode of Top Gear, Porsche charges you more when they deduct weight from/remove things from one of their products. Jeremy Clarkson pon... more » Cash907Censored: Uh. Great. Now how about telling us what the hell this thing does compared to a normal battery, in other words, the POINT of this post, other then art... more » -
#batteries
Porsche's New $1,700 Option: A Starter Battery
Yeah, it's significantly (22 pounds) lighter than its lead acid counterpart, but the trustworthy car geeks at Jalopnik insist there's no way this thing is worth the $1,700 upgrade price. The phrase "overpaid, insecure idiots" came into play. [Jalopnik] -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: Batteries, Tech's Choke Point
The biggest chokepoint in technology is a single roadblock: batteries. Amidst all of the amazing advances in the last 50 years, battery tech has remained fundamentally unchanged, engineers incrementally squeezing out a few extra drops of power from old tech each year. With better batteries, you wouldn't just be able to make it through the day with your iPhone 3G on a single charge, but laptops and phones could run faster, electric cars would rule the highways—it'd be like a brand new world. There are like a million different kinds, but here's a rundown of the most common ones we're stuck with in gadgets for now, and their strengths and weaknesses.More » -
