Batteries 30% more

[Denny Crane!]

I'm seeing more and more of this stuff at the minute, it seems like the advent of electric cars spurred a lot of research into batteries, from battery material you can pour out and pour in freshly charged material to this.

Now most electric cars get 70 miles on a battery which is considered pathetic. Batteries are increasing in range by about 5% a year anyway so this would give us something in the region of 95 miles to a battery. This is a pretty reasonable range for a car in the UK, 70 as a maximum has always seemed a little low to me. Really I don't think we can expect major success from electric vehicles until we can put a 200 mile charge for vehicles.

Great for iPhones though!

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38732/page1/

[Condottiere 40K]

Moore's Law probably more relevant for electronic gadgets - increased miniaturization will ensure more performance for less wattage equals longer usage with a comfortably reactive device.

[Tiwaz]

Except in systems like electric car, Moore's law has minimal importance. For electric car, moving the actual car is far greater strain than electronics onboard. Even if you cut electronics use of energy to 1% of current, it would have very little performance difference.

Some improvement could be achieved on electric motors and heating, but those are quite difficult to achieve compared to improving storage methods. Adding flywheels and better batteries are far more cost effective methods of increasing the usefulness of electric cars.

Though then we hit the wall with recharge... People won't want to wait ages to recharge their cars with massive battery capacity.