Pheonix Electric Nano Battery SUV

[tnguyen318]

THE ELECTRIC CAR REVOLUTION IS HERE!! NISSAN and TESLA MOTORS are coming out with electric cars.

[MRY1181]

@tnguyen318 What are you talking about? Tesla has always been an electric car manufacturer.

[newton2013]

@tnguyen318 You Are Way OFF. You have been reprogrammed. The revolution was over 100 years ago. A small-scale electric car was designed by Professor Stratingh of Groningen, Holland, and built by his assistant Christopher Becker in 1835. Practical and more successful electric road vehicles were invented by both American Thomas Davenport and Scotsmen Robert Davidson around 1842.

Electric vehicles enjoyed success into the 1920s with production peaking in 1912.

Those who do not study history...

[tnguyen318]

If it was such a revolution, how come 95% of cars on the road today is gasoline? (LMAO)

[tnguyen318]

The Chevrolet Volt (PHEV) and the Toyota Prius-In Hybrid are the most fuel efficient Hybrids on the road today. The Volt offers 40 miles of Pure Electric Drive and a range of 390 miles. The Prius-Plug-In offers an electric range of 13 miles with a range of 590 miles. Here is a list of the cars.

A) Chevrolet Volt - 40 miles Electricity 35 mpg.

B) Prius Plug-In - 13 miles electricity 50 mpg.

C) Nissan Leaf - 100 miles electricity with 30 minute rapid charger.

[bujoun76]

This technology is spectacular! my scooter does 132MPG(street), but I have no airbags, seatbelts, or A/C! This car does 100 miles per charge and it recharges in TEN MINUTES? Im sick of burning gas already. Im gettin in line, how about you?

[Archimedes555453525]

I want one! I want my first car to be electric!

[zecnobot]

Why do they bailout big oil-guzzling car companies and not pay these guys?

[Shadowpillar]

They don't lobby and give head.

[schmidty2007]

lol, unfortunately you're prob right.

[Carlibra57]

Who cares the cost of the battery, it's about going green and besides, what do you think a gas engine costs? Several thousand too.

So, given the choice, I'd rather have a green car.

[AlexMcG1]

Nanotech batteries have been around since 2005, why are they not being used? These batteries should be in everything from mobile phones to cars.

[fox20012]

Big Corporations are freaken evil!

[fj9fl]

@AlexMcG1 it's all in the oil companies game,they wouldn't tolerate it. greedy knobs.

[PatrikMacGoohan]

How much is a battery set for one car? My guess about $15,000. That's the main drawback. The price is supposed to come down as they find easier ways to manufacture the nanotubes. How much did the batteries cost a year ago? Do they cost less now? Are they going to be able to mass produce them?

[qkholster]

Stupid G Living Network introduction but cool presentation.

[bd189]

according to the stats on the web site this has 590 torque. so i'd like to see a side by side comparison of this against the ford excursion, both pulling a john deere tractor. the hybrid tahoe smoked the e85 silverado by over 10 seconds doing that so this will smoke the excursion.

[THMTRXMN]

..... O.o WOW....

[macce1984]

well if its 45k in $ thats means its cheap, expecely in finland, new cheap cars cost 18-20k€ and diesels cost 20-30k and gas is 1,4€/l for my driving it will be cheap and wise selection! and i only whait that those cars come in finland!!!

[hekma]

no matter how good these cars are, i get the feeling we wont be seeing much of them

[hopeitshappy]

this is what we need bring it t europe

petrol is £1.02 a litre in the uk

[Nichen]

I mean...35 000 dollars!? Send this baby to Europe and EVERYONE will want this! 35 000 dollars is NOTHING here in Europe!!! :D

[Dilekz]

HAHA nichen... 35000 dollars is only like 22 200 euro... And we paid like 25 000 for our second hand car....

This is fucking cheap... PHOENIX GO TO EUROPE PLEASE... the SUV is great...

[liveoilfree]

The real reason Phoenix wants fast-charging is because the California Air Resources Board will award 40 Gold ZEV credits for each new type-III ZEV (recharge in 5 minutes). Phoenix will be in a position to resell these credits to other car companies, or perhaps to refineries, for perhaps $5,000 each.

[liveoilfree]

Fast-charging is not important for EV driving. In the last 10 years, we've put about 500,000 miles on RAV4-EV, EV1, RangerEV, HondaEV. You'd think that fast charging is important; but we have a fast charger on our RAV4-EV, and don't need it. After you drive an EV for a while, these naive illusions become apparent: really, we have electric everywhere.

[edwong3]

However I believe that fast charging can be useful as in the case of the taxi cab company scenario as presented in the video. Fast charging capability is not redundant in my humble opinion.

[average220]

Its a start in the future it will take as little as 3 minutes to fully charge

[Nichen]

Fuck all the naysayers...electric cars are here and the technology is improving all the time. The electric revolution is here to stay and you know it.

[Rgeezah]

huh. too little too late. sorry humanity, your stupidty and complete ignorance has doomed us all. oh well.

[override367]

Rgeezah why haven't you killed yourself yet? Surely a better fate than dying from radiation in a nuclear war or bird flu or whatever

[Farkitte]

are you serious? are you actually asking that question? do i really have to point out reasons why i have not killed myself?

[vicprobey]

Charge the car in as little as 10 minutes????

Thats like saying buy the bowflex for 25 low payments of 29.95.

How long does it really take to charge with a normal plug, thats the question.

[driubi]

6 hours - says on their website

[DeLorean4]

What disappoints me about this vehicle is that this American electric car company decided to use a Korean body by SsangYong, maker of the ugliest cars on earth.

[karn33333]

there is a problem with using NiHM batteries one the chemicals used for those batteries are limited u would eventualy have same problem as world oil supplies two they are toxic batteries where as lith ions are recycleable.

[myvarsity]

COOL, where do I buy one ?

[zigadabooga]

45 grand??

[tribluered]

The trucks battery last 20 years. If you drove a gas for 20 years, the cost of gas is almost the cost electric truck. Thats if you only drive 1000 miles a month and at 3 dollars per gallon.

[zigadabooga]

Chances are you will never own a vehicle for 20 years. It would be better to say the cost above a gasoline vehilce, say $20,000 would pay for its' self in 13 years, including the electricity cost. Based on your 12K miles/year and $3/gallon. Of course there's more savings involved like oil changes and tune-ups.

But still.. $45 grand? They should use NiMH at half the cost of Li-ION...

[roidroid]

I just worked it out for Australia.

pricewise, electric would be the equivalent of having a diesel car that gets 65.3 km/litre (153 mpg).

So this Pheonix electric is the same price as a new good 4x4 (Patrol/Landcruiser) but gets 9x the fuel efficiency (by fuel price).

Per year you'll save about $2761AU in fuelcosts, so in 19 years you'll have saved enough to buy another one.

[zigadabooga]

Well this is hardly a Land cruiser, it's a Honda frame for one thing. Second electricity is more expensive in the US. With your comparison an SUV with 18MPG, $3/gallon for gas, and 12K annual miles, will cost 4 times as much to operate than an electric. Meaning it's 72MPG gas equivalent.

NOT BAD... but we can do better, again NiMH is half the price of Li-ION. That would bring down the price for this SUT. Making it available to the masses.

[roidroid]

What is the lifetime of NiMH batterys?

[zigadabooga]

Speaking in terms of years is irrelevant; it's how you use it that matters. Typically, a NiMH cell does 2000 deep cycles or 300,000 shallow cycles (80%SOC). That's 200,000miles @ 100 miles per full charge, and 6,000,000 miles @ 20 miles per charge.

[Plokumfup]

Sounds great.

[voyager1985]

That thing is so cool.

[jstack6]

I couldn't afford their EV yet so I bought stock in the battery company, ALTI, someday I will buy their EV from my profits.