http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/ Engadget Comments for Researchers say new material could let cars be powered by their bodywork http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
I drive a hummer with a prius shell over it. it gets half the mileage as a hummer, but people think I'm eco-friendly!]]>Feb 5th 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
Seems more like a capacitor than a battery. There is a difference. Both hold a charge, one chemically, the other via electric fields.]]>Feb 5th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Isn't there another difference. Don't capacitors discharge proportionally to how much charge they have ie faster when full and slower as they discharge, wheras a power discharges at a constant rate? I'm no engineer though so I could be wrong. Don't want cars that perform differently at different charges.]]>Feb 6th 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
Or if they run into my car with a shopping cart again.

I just wish their handels would be made of plastic.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 6th 2010 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/now you sir have a great mind lol]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/or what happened at the accident when the body battery split in halves and short across each other, you get a giant glowing metal shell which would be hard to put out]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/I would love to have Saturn in my living room!]]>Feb 5th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
If they can eliminate that risk, this will be awesome.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
They eliminate the problem by simply having a switch to ground the material to something when it is compromised. The driver perhaps?]]>Feb 5th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
It isn't a solar panel, or a heating element. It is a storage device (if it even works). ]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Phone running low --> head to a parked car.
Your car running low? Park it next to another car and attach some small and hard to see cables between them.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/This guy is blathering about how great it will be to power things....so how does it get powered?

Rotation of the tires or a new belt system? Solar? Hamsters? Bad breath after a meatball sub sandwich? ]]>Feb 5th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/
"Warning, battery powered clothes are known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects."]]>Feb 6th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 5th 2010 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Not really. Electric car batteries are what I was talking about. The battery in a Tesla weighs 900 pounds. That is a big deal.]]>Feb 5th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 17th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 17th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/researchers-say-new-material-could-let-cars-be-powered-by-their/Feb 17th 2010 2:23PM