https://www.racefans.net/2020/08/20/ban ... rand-prix/The FIA suspects some reliability changes requested by teams have arisen because ‘quali modes’ were used to run engines beyond their normal parameters. The requests for reliability changes may therefore be an indirect means of unlocking more performance.
Tesla has announced another battery day coning up in September. Some seem to think they have cracked solid state batteries. Or notPlatinumZealot wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 20:11Carbon nanotubes are far from ready for use yet. Still a pie in the sky application. The contacts of carbon nantoube to metal is your problem... And actually making the nanotube without defects....
Lithium metal batteries should be ready in a few years. About a 30% improvement in density can be expected.
Or Toyota’s fluoride-ion solid state battery, which was set to be launched to the public during 2020’s olympic games, or any of the other solid state batteries... https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/b ... technologyBig Tea wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 21:35Tesla has announced another battery day coning up in September. Some seem to think they have cracked solid state batteries. Or notPlatinumZealot wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 20:11Carbon nanotubes are far from ready for use yet. Still a pie in the sky application. The contacts of carbon nantoube to metal is your problem... And actually making the nanotube without defects....
Lithium metal batteries should be ready in a few years. About a 30% improvement in density can be expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEevmuxMgU covers some of it
Edit, sorry posted tesla vid on Honda forum
Honda worked with NASA on their fluoride-ion battery for the past couple years so Honda too could be bringing that to mass market as well. And they also are working with GM on hydrogen fuel cell cars. The only thing holding EVs back is the retard Hachigo.Laserguru wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 21:59Or Toyota’s fluoride-ion solid state battery, which was set to be launched to the public during 2020’s olympic games, or any of the other solid state batteries... https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/b ... technologyBig Tea wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 21:35Tesla has announced another battery day coning up in September. Some seem to think they have cracked solid state batteries. Or notPlatinumZealot wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 20:11Carbon nanotubes are far from ready for use yet. Still a pie in the sky application. The contacts of carbon nantoube to metal is your problem... And actually making the nanotube without defects....
Lithium metal batteries should be ready in a few years. About a 30% improvement in density can be expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEevmuxMgU covers some of it
Edit, sorry posted tesla vid on Honda forum
Big changes coming relatively soon.
Didn't Honda introduce their new PU early for "reliability" purposes?mem wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 20:55does Honda power unit has reliability upgrades? if no who has?https://www.racefans.net/2020/08/20/ban ... rand-prix/The FIA suspects some reliability changes requested by teams have arisen because ‘quali modes’ were used to run engines beyond their normal parameters. The requests for reliability changes may therefore be an indirect means of unlocking more performance.
They rushed forward a second specification, which ended up only being half what they wanted to bring, which was the reliability side anyway, no announced performance gain.zibby43 wrote: ↑21 Aug 2020, 04:54Didn't Honda introduce their new PU early for "reliability" purposes?mem wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 20:55does Honda power unit has reliability upgrades? if no who has?https://www.racefans.net/2020/08/20/ban ... rand-prix/The FIA suspects some reliability changes requested by teams have arisen because ‘quali modes’ were used to run engines beyond their normal parameters. The requests for reliability changes may therefore be an indirect means of unlocking more performance.
I think you have a vew very good points @Ghost.GhostF1 wrote: ↑21 Aug 2020, 09:24They rushed forward a second specification, which ended up only being half what they wanted to bring, which was the reliability side anyway, no announced performance gain.zibby43 wrote: ↑21 Aug 2020, 04:54Didn't Honda introduce their new PU early for "reliability" purposes?mem wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 20:55does Honda power unit has reliability upgrades? if no who has?
https://www.racefans.net/2020/08/20/ban ... rand-prix/
It wouldn't matter anyway as they didn't introduce it mid-season as a "reliability upgrade", it was rushed to make the first race of the season. So it's not suspect at all.
If anything, the fact Mercedes burned through their first MGU-K on all six cars smells a little odd to me (and no they are not in the pool for any of them, they are all expired). Renault and Merc having a noticeable performance difference between their qualification and race modes, as in it's a pretty big jump, that also could raise eyebrows. If it was Ferrari, I'd be shocked because their PU is a little bit of a slug at the moment so it'd look pretty poor if they were still circumventing the rules for that performance and Honda in general I'd be surprised if they were just outright cheating, culturally... it's not something I can imagine them doing nor can I see anything suspect with their performance on track.
I mean Ferrari have gotten away with whatever it was they were doing without any punishment, what's to say Merc's sudden appeal withdrawal last year wasn't a final finger to the FIA in that they can go down the line of "fine, we'll do what Ferrari are doing too if there's no Championship penalty or public, financial/award repercussions".
I mean what's the worst that can happen? the FIA strike another quiet deal but with Mercedes this time and tell them to stop doing what they're doing ala Ferrari last year?
The whole saga has opened so many potential holes it isn't funny. (this is all theoretical by the way, I'm merely making suggestions, not accusing)
Reliability and performance are inextricably linked. The more reliable and robust your PU is, the harder you can run it. Full stop.GhostF1 wrote: ↑21 Aug 2020, 09:24They rushed forward a second specification, which ended up only being half what they wanted to bring, which was the reliability side anyway, no announced performance gain.zibby43 wrote: ↑21 Aug 2020, 04:54Didn't Honda introduce their new PU early for "reliability" purposes?mem wrote: ↑20 Aug 2020, 20:55does Honda power unit has reliability upgrades? if no who has?
https://www.racefans.net/2020/08/20/ban ... rand-prix/
It wouldn't matter anyway as they didn't introduce it mid-season as a "reliability upgrade", it was rushed to make the first race of the season. So it's not suspect at all.
If anything, the fact Mercedes burned through their first MGU-K on all six cars smells a little odd to me (and no they are not in the pool for any of them, they are all expired). Renault and Merc having a noticeable performance difference between their qualification and race modes, as in it's a pretty big jump, that also could raise eyebrows. If it was Ferrari, I'd be shocked because their PU is a little bit of a slug at the moment so it'd look pretty poor if they were still circumventing the rules for that performance and Honda in general I'd be surprised if they were just outright cheating, culturally... it's not something I can imagine them doing nor can I see anything suspect with their performance on track.
I mean Ferrari have gotten away with whatever it was they were doing without any punishment, what's to say Merc's sudden appeal withdrawal last year wasn't a final finger to the FIA in that they can go down the line of "fine, we'll do what Ferrari are doing too if there's no Championship penalty or public, financial/award repercussions".
I mean what's the worst that can happen? the FIA strike another quiet deal but with Mercedes this time and tell them to stop doing what they're doing ala Ferrari last year?
The whole saga has opened so many potential holes it isn't funny. (this is all theoretical by the way, I'm merely making suggestions, not accusing)