Luke Workman ON the Wheel-E Podcast
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nicobie
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Link? Just incase google fails me.
BicycleJoe
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I'm not the OP but this podcast answered my questions about battery tech, present and future.
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Wheel-E Podcast: Guest Luke Workman, Eurobike 2023, FUELL Flluid-2, more
The Wheel-E Podcast returns for another episode covering all of the latest news and reviews in the world of e-bikes, e-motos and more.
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spinningmagnets
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I will listen to this immediately!
If you scroll down on this article, there's a couple paragraphs on Luke...
Edit: only the first half of the podcast has Luke in it, so it's short and well worth the listen for 30 minutes. Sodium Iron Phosphate batteries for home power back-up and time-shifting sounds very good!
If you scroll down on this article, there's a couple paragraphs on Luke...
Zero Motorcycles, history and tech
The story begins with one guy, Neal Saiki (SY-kee). He is an engineer who worked for NASA for a while, which shows that he is a pretty smart guy, and also why he was always up to date with any new …
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Edit: only the first half of the podcast has Luke in it, so it's short and well worth the listen for 30 minutes. Sodium Iron Phosphate batteries for home power back-up and time-shifting sounds very good!
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raylo32
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I listened to it... great stuff. Thanks, Luke.
nicobie
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'Oh how quick they forget'
We have an ongoing issue with a somewhat frozen view counter that we're going to tackle this week. Actual view counts are what you see plus a few more digits
I will say that I was extremely impressed with LFPs deep knowledge and willingness to generously share (where not constrained by various NDAs).
Just after listening to him intellegently use highly technical vocabulary I came away feeling much smarter and better able to grasp at the important concepts.
The section on saltfog intrusion into battery internals helped me clarify some nagging suspicions. (As a major contributing factor to the higher rate of NYC battery mishaps.)
Overall, very proud to be a member of a forum (ES) that also includes LFP as a long-time contributing member!
Just after listening to him intellegently use highly technical vocabulary I came away feeling much smarter and better able to grasp at the important concepts.
The section on saltfog intrusion into battery internals helped me clarify some nagging suspicions. (As a major contributing factor to the higher rate of NYC battery mishaps.)
Overall, very proud to be a member of a forum (ES) that also includes LFP as a long-time contributing member!
Luke's posts were always interesting and informative for me, and it's too bad he doesn't post now. For those who are new, years ago he had a "bike" that was an 11 second quarter miler at 110 mph or so (AIR). There are videos of him challenging and beating Teslas at the strip.
biphaeboh
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I must admit I didn't understand half of what he said.
There did seem to be two take aways.
1)Salt on roads leads to battery fires.
2)Batteries made from salt would be good.
There did seem to be two take aways.
1)Salt on roads leads to battery fires.
2)Batteries made from salt would be good.
Open question to Luke if he sees this at some point-
From your interview I got the impression that all solid-state (electrolyte) batteries will inherently have safety issues (poisonous, hydrophoric, pyrophoric) particularly in penetration type testing. Pulling up the wiki on solid-state electrolyte materials, there appear to be many potential chemistries that seem to be actively in research/testing by various manufacturers - was your characterization of solid-state electrolyte batteries meant to be all inclusive?
I'm just wondering how to qualify what you said vs manufacturing disclosures like QuantumScape announcing successful penetration testing of their A0 protytpe with this solid-state battery. Example quote:
From the interview I know you can't comment on specific (battery) products, but I'm just wondering if the impression I got from your interview was accurate or only applied to one or some of the categories of solid-state chemistries? Any clarification would be helpful, I don't want to accidentally parrot inaccurate info.
From your interview I got the impression that all solid-state (electrolyte) batteries will inherently have safety issues (poisonous, hydrophoric, pyrophoric) particularly in penetration type testing. Pulling up the wiki on solid-state electrolyte materials, there appear to be many potential chemistries that seem to be actively in research/testing by various manufacturers - was your characterization of solid-state electrolyte batteries meant to be all inclusive?
I'm just wondering how to qualify what you said vs manufacturing disclosures like QuantumScape announcing successful penetration testing of their A0 protytpe with this solid-state battery. Example quote:
From the interview I know you can't comment on specific (battery) products, but I'm just wondering if the impression I got from your interview was accurate or only applied to one or some of the categories of solid-state chemistries? Any clarification would be helpful, I don't want to accidentally parrot inaccurate info.
