Honda Power Unit Hardware & Software

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Name me 1 automotive manufacture that charges and discharges a battery 100 times in 1 hour(about twice a minute) and has to do that 8 times before being able to replace the battery. Not 1 car in the world comes close to having to match those demands.

How do Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault, and now Audi do it in F1? How do other manufacturers do it in other series? Basically, any electric car with energy recovery does this as many times as necessary per minute while driving, giving and receiving energy.

My point was, F1 battery demands aren't the same as automotive production demands.

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A number of Chinese automakers (SAIC, Chery, GAC, GWM и BYD) already have their own factories producing solid-state batteries, and some of them are preparing for mass production of electric vehicles this year.

You mean researching SSD batteries. The technology is not ready to be commercially available yet. There is one company in Finland that just said they are using it in a motorcycle.

Solid-state batteries have long been the holy grail of electric vehicles, but after years of development, they may finally be a viable option. Verge Motorcycles, a Finnish/Estonian mobility brand is claiming to have the world’s first production EV fitted with a solid state battery. Working with its in-house technology partner Donut Lab, the firm brand will start deliveries of its solid-state powered motorbikes within months.

They don't need to be commercial products to be used in F1. Hell, a test production line could provide a team with battery cells, maybe all teams.

I assume you mean solid state batteries. They don't build batteries of SSD drives.

Yeah, mind was flying Just solid state.

Nevertheless, why would anyone research and develop a type of technology if the goal isn't to make money with it? And yeah, in F1 there are a lot of money, but worldwide are more. Plus money from patents, intellectual property and so on. I think the goal is always to go public and make big money on electrification, Honda or all the other companies that are researching.

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Nevertheless, why would anyone research and develop a type of technology if the goal isn't to make money with it? And yeah, in F1 there are a lot of money, but worldwide are more. Plus money from patents, intellectual property and so on. I think the goal is always to go public and make big money on electrification, Honda or all the other companies that are researching.

One does not exclude the other. In fact selling cells to F1 teams might help development funded if it's a smaller project.

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