Riversimple FCEV weight investigation
Prologue [Updated 02/03/2019 with new information] It was my opinion that FCEV technology missed the boat (for personal transportation), if it had been where it is now 15-20 years ago I would've been very excited, but advances in Li-ion battery technology has made it a non-starter. Having had some interesting debates on twitter about this and with the Riversimple Rasa nearly here I thought I'd try to figure out what would happen if Riversimple ditched the FCEV for the Rasa and switched to Li-ion. I'll try to document my sources where I remember. The specifications for the Rasa were taken from here: arstechnica.com Specifications for supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries were taken from wikipedia.org Li-ion cars are too heavy and inefficient But are they? Riversimple haven't released details of the specific components they have used so I have to investigate and guess a little. The Rasa has 1.5kg of hydrogen @ 33kwh/kg giving tota...