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You might find this article regarding GM's sodium-ion based battery that was in my newspaper yesterday interesting.

To be fair, Zero has pretty much delivered every new model I can remember them announcing at the promised time...

As a Zero customer since 2012, that is my observation, too.

Why not contact Zero's customer service and ask them about the problem?

it might even make the hair stand up on your arms, right before the magic smoke comes rushing out to let you know that you just found the surprise unadvertised fireworks display in your bike !

still on the trucks trains etc that's the equivalent of 6 huge viking head connectors that weigh about 25 lbs each head, the cable is about 9 to 12lb per foot, well actually being high voltage probably more, and the insulation on kv class tends to be very stiff too, at least if you want any durability out of it.  plugging in and out, fun, and that's an entire new class of power handling once you get into that range.  any fuckup there is catastrophic, not just burnt batteries, but arc blast that'll blow arms and legs off.

probably plug it in, everyone runs and hides behind the concrete blast wall then pusht he button to roll in the hv switch.  they could probably power it with a 4160 feed but just the amps needed, thats still huge, much better feeding it with a 36.8 or if you got a few see if you can get a transmission drop and hit a 69k to feed it.

thats just not power you can just, throw another plug in, that needs to be planned and scheduled when putting that in, and depending on your local grid, a small municipality might even want that to be dispatched.

we have a steel mill out here, their main cooker pulls 50mw when they throw that switch on, now couple that with the stupid solar farm on a windy / cloudy day and that bitch is swinging 50 mw in a few seconds..yah the dispatchers gonna have a lot of fun heh

aaron

Plugging in those charging cables sounds like a good job for non-union robots. 

Ah.

It was a paid for ad (but not disclosed) to drum up hype for an IPO
https://electrek.co/2026/05/27/another-solid-state-ev-battery-maker-going-public/?extended-comments=1

No big surprise to me, and likely others familiar with EV and battery startup promotions. 

There was an article in the business section of my newspaper yesterday which said that a bipartisan bill is being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives that would impose a yearly $130 tax on all electric-only powered vehicles. It would require states to impose that tax on top of their vehicle registration fees and pass the money to government, along with the usual 18.7 cents per gallon fuel tax. Hybrid vehicles would be charged only a small fraction of that fee. It was noted in the article that very few ICE vehicle owners pay as much as $130 a year in gasoline taxes. This tax is to help pay for the maintenance and repair of highways in America. It was also noted that the tax hasn't been increased in about 20 years. It seems likely that this bill might pass in the House, but its fate in the Senate is uncertain. If it passes both houses of Congress, President Trump is very likely to sign it into law.

Needless to say, electric motorcycles were not mentioned as being exempt in the proposed law. Unfortunately, if this law passes, I wouldn't be surprised if motorcycles end up being lumped into the electric vehicle category and also get hit with this tax each year, even though electric motorcycles have a vastly smaller impact on highways than electric cars or trucks.

Don't forget the new power generators needed to provide juice to the local AI complex. There is going to be fight over who gets those electrons. 

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-built-a-quantum-battery-that-charges-almost-instantly/

because why not.
below were some other interesting links about battery tech as well

aaron

Does it work for powering cars the size of ants?     I am impressed with the pictures of the equipment needed to charge their quantum battery.