[Shadow_Group] Panasonic’s car runs on two AA batteries!

[shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca]

http://www.motortrader.com.my/NUS/articles/0/article_132/page_m.asp
 
Panasonic’s car runs on two AA batteries!

No, this is not one of those jokes that circulate around the Net and it’s not a radio-controlled model car. Panasonic has developed a prototype ‘car’ which has travelled some distance – with a full-sized human on board – and its source of electrical power has been just two AA batteries like the ones you put in a torch. 

The machine, known as the ‘Oxyride’, was built for the purpose of demonstrating the performance of the new range of Panasonic ‘Digital Xtreme Power’ alkaline batteries. These new batteries use a modified alkaline chemistry and a combination of newly developed materials for the cathode - Oxy Nickel Hydroxide and new technologically developed manganese dioxide and graphite. A “Tablet Mix Control System” controls and increases the amount of these materials per battery in order to raise the discharge performance. 

Additionally, a new vacuum pouring technology allows inserting a higher quantity of electrolyte in the battery, thus creating higher durability. The combination of these technological developments is claimed to result in the improved power performance and durability that characterises the new battery. 

To prove its point about the new batteries’ performance, Panasonic put two into a 2900 mm long 3-wheeled prototype weighing 18.5 kgs to power an electric motor. The prototype also had a 50-kg driver on board and covered 65 metres in 74 seconds, continuing to travel 1.23 kms before the batteries ran out of power. 

Will your descendants be going around in AA-powered cars and pop into a 7-11 whenever they need additional power? Nothing’s impossible but it may take quite some time for that scenario to become reality. 





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