Zero-Cost Battery in an Electric Pickup Truck TV newscast

[zxous]

To all you gullible SUCKERS out there. THIS IS COMPLETE NONSENSE.

Don't believe me - I dare you to pay for this so you can find out for yourself.

He claims ALL batteries - BULLSHIT!

All batteries (different type) ARE DIFFERENT and use different chemicals, methods and uses. This is a DEAD give away that this is SERIOUS BULLSHIT.

DON'T BE A SUCKER - THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT - WITHOUT QUESTION.

[paytontech]

The best thing to do when you have a helpful technology and are seriously worried about mass extinction and global catastrophe, is of course, to keep the technology to yourself and not broadcast it.

Much like the best to do when a house is on fire is to turn off the water mains to the street the house is on.

Right?

[PS3REPAIRGUY]

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[lasay365]

I love green ideas

[BeauStinsonDotCom]

1. It's a "truck"

2. It's ugly as hell

3. lol.... trash digger

[verminslayer]

A fully electric small pick up truck would save me so much damn money. I spent $70 on gas this week.

[peepeevagi]

Well, yeah it's better, but it lacks petrol charm. It lacks that beautiful sound of a bore-gut V8.

[litetheory]

I agree... There's nothing like the sound of a V8. I hope they can make an EV that has a V8 sound and power.. Now that's something!!!

[peepeevagi]

But a small v8 chuggs gas like no tomorrow.

And V6's come in big-block proportion ECONOMICALLY!!! :D 350hp 4.2L v6 getting 25-30mpg.

[BatteryReviver]

Let me know how you make out with your back EMF motor.

Have you seen our club's Bedini and modified Adams motors? We've experimented similarly to yours.

[sceptic33]

don't know how this guys system works, but the Bedini SSG motor/energiser claims to do the same thing. plans to build your own can be found all over the web and youtube... it only takes a few minutes to solder together...the motor runs on one battery while charging another with high voltage flyback spikes from the coil. I'm still in the process of testing its effect on a long dead battery...the company energenx sells chargers that use a solidstate version of the same idea...

[Odziz]

Good sound but video from tv to camera is poor. Didn't the stations website have the video on line ? Might be a good idea to get a DVD recorder. Thanks for the EV Austin link. I'll put a link on our groups website. voltwagons dot com

[BatteryReviver]

The Global TV crew brought their own battery guy to check things out. Note the battery load test in the newscast and also by the newspaper (Burnaby Now) -- there is a blogsite with photos of the newspaper guy using the tester himself before the paper ran the story on the front page.

[e1p12007]

Be optimistic AND skeptical.

Google "battery reconditioning" and you'll find links. Ebay also has devices for sale to renew car batteries.

[BatteryReviver]

If you check out the matching EValbum entry for this vehicle, you'll see that there are *three* battery breakthroughs on the "long battery string" on this 120Vdc electric pickup. The battery rejuvenation was just one of these three breakthroughs, in addition to the workarounds developed to make the somewhat fragile (read the EV Diary, Part Seven) parts in the usual electric car.

[nvpatentlawyer]

Nonsense! Lead acid battery recycling is the most well-developed recycling system ever developed. Almost every lead-acid battery is recycled. Essentially none ends up in a land fill. However, I'd like to know more about the device to extend the life of my batteries in my electric car -- before they get RECYCLED!

[BatteryReviver]

Battery reconditioning for a 24V electric bike or scooter is relatively simple. Even though (in another Youtube or forum posting) there was a comment that ebike shops in China have suppossedly given up on *all* battery revival devices because apparently battery reconditioning devices "don't work." (That was also the view by Steve, the owner of the Raylight electric bike shop in Burnaby/Vancouver.

You can Google for the Flikr photos of where this truck has been around lately.

[BatteryReviver]

Read Greenpeace's report, titled, "The Myth of Automobile Battery Recycling" which alleges that recycling (like Michael Moore opines, too) is a FRAUD.

[nvpatentlawyer]

The posted video states that lead acid batteries "would otherwise be in a landfill." This is nonsense. I agree that Third World environmental conditions must be addressed, but the news broadcast is simply based on ignorance.

[BatteryReviver]

Read Shanghai battery trash story. "Revived Batteries" may be a great solution to Londoners and Milan electric vehicle owners, let's hope that they can implement battery revival science like we have in Vancouver, Canada.

FYI: Mexico City and Manila have recently started joint business/government electric vehicle manufacturing operations. They are not aware that electric cars' batteries may likely cost 2X-10X more than gasoline, unless they revive batteries, like we did in Vancouver.

[mre2u2]

Most of our recyclables are sold to China.  I dont approve of this. Plus they take the recyleable assets and charge us to do so. Sweet system for the commies to make money

[drdhdmd]

I though lead was recycled? If this is the case then someone will want to get paid for those "scrap" batteries but it wiil be a lot less than a new one of course. Time will tell if the new rejuvinated batteries will last under the heavy load of an EV vehicle. If they do then there should be someone capitalizing on rejuvinated batteries for regular cars too. I have never seen that so I am optimistically skeptical...

[BatteryReviver]

Shanghai (according to a National Geographic article) once had terrible air pollution which was reduced after a reduction in cars, which caused a rise in lead-acid batteries being dumped everywhere by electric bicycle owners. Shanghai then banned electric bikes next. Let's hope that London (Congestion Tax) and Milan (Pollution Toll) don't have the same sad end, in respect to electric cars.

[mre2u2]

UK is a moron for having such a regressive tax. The rich will laugh at it and the poor suffer and move away