Sandy Munro On Next-Generation EV Technology: Tesla, Solid State Batteries, MegaCastings, VTOLS, Q&A 

At 21:17, I just love that quote on screen “once attracted it sticks like a bloodsucking relative”. Priceless.....

This presentation would be fantastic to watch again in 2031.

I only wish I could give this video ten thumbs up !!! Fantastic talk from an exceptional speaker !!!! Thanks Sandy Munro !!!!

Thanks for having me!

Thank you so much for this presentation. I’ve been following Sandy Monro for a couple of years. Ever since I saw him on Autoline After Hours. When Gali/Hyperchange said he had introduced Mark Frohnmayer to Sandy I rushed out and bought FUV @ $3.01. Unfortunately I didn’t sell @ $36.80. But I have made a few $$ and FUV is my second largest holding, behind TSLA. When Sandy says something I pay attention. Thanks again.

Wow this is quintessential Sandy , he makes engineering understandable and enjoyable. Such a unique and rare gem,awesome channel

Thank you to Sandy Munro and Charged for this presentation. I had much of the basic information floating around in my head, but this put a laser focus on breaking the options down the best way. I specially was interested to find out, (for sure, though I suspected), that there is no ONE best solution for all needs. Cars, and other small vehicles NEED batteries. At the present time, this means Li-Ion. Larger vehicles can make use of hydrogen. Eventually, there may be a viable Solid State Battery available for general use, but to replace Li-Ion may take decades. Hooray for Sandy. He covered all bets while sounding knowledgeable. I'm kidding, of course, Sandy is THE BOSS when it comes to engineering.

Many blessings to your niece Meagan Sandy!

Thanks, I just started reviewing all these technologies, your introduction certainly was informative.

Wow. The Q&A is terrific. Great questions.

Mr. Munro, you are a fountain of info, vision and inspiration. Thank you for this clarity.

Thanks to all. Very informative.

Wishing Meghan a quick and full recovery! Thanks for your insights, Sandy!

As always Sandy is brilliant, to the point and most informative. 🙏 thanks 🇬🇧 Oh, and he’s absolutely right about CEOs most of whom are accountants, who look at balance sheets to the exclusion of all else. That’s why so much has first gone to Japan and now to China, China in particular leads the world in electronics.

Thank you so much for making this happen. Munro is a national treasure!

Thanks so much! Very helpful indeed!

Thanks for doing this. I have the greatest respect for Sandy Munro and his engineering knowledge. As another old guy, I know there's no substitute for having paid attention to everything around me all my life. It's worth remembering and respecting the enormous depth of Tesla from both a management and technology perspective. Elon Musk has built a company that is a magnet for the best talent in the world, and the ongoing result is that Tesla is the most competent and far-sighted company in the world in every aspect of physical transportation, energy production, energy transportation, energy storage, and AI. Every aspect? Invent, research, design, and develop; manufacturing systems; software control systems; user interfaces; user assist systems (FSD, for example). Tesla is now so far ahead in every area of its technology, every aspect is licensable. The scary aspect for every other organization is the Elon Musk corporate model. It's an entirely new model that disposes of the old power heirarchies that exist inside every other company (departments, management structure, etc). This new model gets much faster, better results which means that any old heirarchies can't catch up and will have no choice but to licence from Tesla.

I like both the Hydro Quebec battery idea and the light activated hydrogen solutions, Because of the large availability of electricity, specially hydro, in some parts of the country I tend to go for this option.

THANKSGIVING

i've ordered the tri motor fsd ct & i can't wait for it to get here!! I may buy the S or the Y in the mean time..i got lots of solar & back up battery system as well.

VTOL personal vehicles at around 34:00 marker. The biggest issue with those and especially when we talk about separation, are the forces of nature, namely the air drafts such as heat and wind. The air, unlike the pavement is never solid and if you've ever flown a small aircraft you'd know just how "bumpy" it is. No matter how comfortable you may become with constantly getting thrown about, there is an inherent risk of smashing into structures, particularly in the cities. Take one such as Manhattan or Hong Kong that are full of very tall buildings in very close proximity to each other, and you have massive amount of warm air swirling about. Now, combine that with natural weather patterns and you have a whole heap of challenges to worry about.

Great show.

Sandy the best!!!😤 always teaching me something

Fantastic!

Sandy great job, I'm a big H2 fan , did research in the 70's on them. Did you know my dad James he worked for A.O.Smith into the late 80's in R and D and production.

Very informative... Very much appreciated!

Sandy. I too for more then 20 years have been saying that the future of transportation is above the ground. My reasoning has always been that we cannot continue to support all the infrastructure and consuming all the natural resources required to keep moving along the surface of the earth. We are seeing it even today. Our roads are a mess and bridges are crumbling and we are continuing to build more knowing full well we can’t pay for the up keep. Air does not need constant repairs. We simply cannot afford to remain on the ground. Spreading out the population both vertically as well as horizontally even just 100’ AGL adds an interesting element of safety. It will save millions of lives.

Very informative! Thank you!

I see very little coverage of the Lilium vertical takeoff electric jet, it would be interesting if you looked into it

Sandy.. You are the man 😎

Stay awesome and safe Megan!!!

Ah, so I’m the 1500th like. I feel strangely satisfied, over enjoying another great talk by Sandy🖖🏼

Thank you for the show. Sandy is great source of common sense. subscribed /cheers ScrapBongo

EVTOL Please! I"m right there with Sandy

Awesome vlog tons of info Sandy is a faint mind can’t get enough of his thinking ,👍👏👏👏👏👏👏

Judging by the ‘thumbs down’ count, at least 10 Ford/GM/Toyota, etc., shareholders have viewed this video. What’s not to like?

Much wow!

Sandy......u are a gem 💎

22:40 When you talk about the energy density of hydrogen, you MUST include the weight of the TANK. With gasoline or diesel, the weight of the tank is not a big deal because of the density of the fuel. But with hydrogen, it's everything. And when you include that, hydrogen can still look fairly good, but not THAT good.

I enjoyed the talk with Sandy but WHY is Sandy in 720p when he should have been in 1080p or even 4k? I would have wanted to see his wall decorations in better detail.

Such an enjoyable video,

46:00 You can make a casting with the crush characteristics you want, and you could make the alternative with desirable crushing as well. The question is how much it weighs. Nobody seems to be putting it in those terms. I think the castings will save substantial weight. It totally makes sense. There are no operations such as stamping, and stamping inevitably weakens a piece of metal to some extent.

Good Show, Sandy!! Mr. Munro, you are Very Bullish on electric powered VTOLS, and while I'm a High School drop out, and really don't want to bore you with childish questions, I gotta try : of course, the weight of batteries or fuel cells and hydrogen tanks are the biggest problems to overcome, but since the most energy intensive part of any flight is just getting the DAMN thing off the ground and into the air, and since this is a very short duration, high energy event, wouldn't Ultra Capacitors be perfect for this part of the flight?? I read that Ultra Capacitors can store large voltages of electricity, but not large Volumes of electricity yet, but I believe they are much lighter than batteries, which means you'd only need enough batteries for the lowest power use, easiest part of the flight, but I haven't seen or read about using them in that type of application, so I guess I'm wrong!!! Sorry!!! Chas Orvis, Plainville, Ct. PS : you ARE THE WILLIE NELSON OF THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD!!!

Sandy, great video, it would be great if the IDRA RU-vid link is also listed in comments section; otherwise so difficult to get correct and watch

solid state battery is the future .. just time to work👌

I had not heard of light activated hydride until this talk. I am surprised more effort is not directed to this technology.

Stay after it you the man

Ammonia is a stable hydride in liquid form. It adds one nitrogen per three hydrogen atoms but it can be used in internal combustion engines. Thermal efficiency is always the issue. But a crank less engine moving a coil back and forth will generate power with fewer losses and could potentially be made with variable stroke and variable compression ratio.

Hybrids (diesel/elected, gas/electric.)will have to serve as the stop-gap for all-electric vehicles till the technology and infrastructure can catch-up.

The UK postal service has small scale underground tunnels in London. Tiny trains for post and packages.

I like how he says we have x, we have y and we have z, like he gets how technology is supposed to benefit us all not just the 1%ers

I'm impressed that battery chemistry advances gradually via "trial and error" and the Tesla "jelly roll" technology lends itself readily to improvements in battery chemistry without necessitating major alterations in expensive manufacturing machinery. Can the same be said of solid state batteries? My guess is that mass production machinery for solid state batteries would likely work for only one type of solid state battery, and that advancing to a better solid state battery would likely entail major changes in manufacturing equipment.

Thanks for the video. Question: if any of these castings get damaged in an accident there is no repairing them, correct?

Intriguing ideas! The VTOL sounds like an idea from the Jetsons. Pretty cool.

This is my theory about the two Texas guys crash. They started driving with both sitting in front, then they wanted to switch driver while driving. So the passenger moved to back, the driver moved to passenger seat. Before the back seat guy moved to drive seat, accident happened.

You need to do a video of Nano One cathode innovator. A lot going on. Their new partnerships and recent uplisting to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

My Lord! What a rambling delivery! Take a breath, Sandy, please "...very plentiful kind of an element"

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Just because it's electric, it doesn't mean a VTOL won't be LOUD; especially during takeoff, and landing. Less loud, sure, but if the number of vehicles is drastically higher, isn't noise pollution a big problem?

What on earth is the advantage of steering by thought. That's what fingers and hands are for. They are designed to translate thought into movement.

Very good overview/intel

Doesn't the Aptera's use of vacuum cast composite body components take advantage of the giga press casting idea without having to buy a giga press and deal with molten metal? I think the Aptera has maybe 5 total body components that can be self aligning in assembly and hand fitted with no use of robots. So much about the Aptera seems to be really smart to me. I know Sandy is working with them so I'm looking forward to a tear down of one in the next few months as they are getting close to rolling some off of the assembly line. By the end of this year or early next year. Exciting times ahead.

What IDRA is doing for this sort of manufacturing is akin to what TSMC is doing in the silicon/chip sectors. Thanks for this video. It made me sit up and start taking notice of what IDRA is doing. Looks like they are key enablers...selling the shovels to the miners (so to speak)... As for VTOL's....Sandy seems very enamored by the potential, and I get it. But Sandy....think it thru. Consider something from this perspective. Ever sat close to an airport? Or under a hovering helicopter or large drone? What's the one thing that leaps out at you? Noise. Big-time noise. Now consider this in light of a world where hundreds to thousands of VTOL-like vehicles are whirling directly overhead. That would be a racket wouldn't it? And on a 24 x 7 basis, too. I'm not sure this aspect is being thought thru.... John~ American Net'Zen

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26:14 Not sure where he gets that 'battery 4% recyclable' stat, but that's just wrong. Batteries are in the 90 to 99% range of recyclability.

The problem with personal vtol is flight is an extremely dynamic situation. That's the reason only 2% of the population has ever operated any type of flying vehicle. Those vehicles will need to be fully autonomous because the average person simply doesn't have a high enough livel of situational awareness if they did there would be zero traffic accidents on the highways today !

At 1:19 you talk about Michael Dunne. He is with "Zozo Go", an Asian automobile newsletter.

Love to your Niece Sandy 😍😍🙏🏼🙏🏼

You need to visit Hytec Automotive in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Have you given any consideration of the Kia EV6 or the Hyundai Ionic5 products?

I think the reason for oem not going to body casting are Union simple

What a dude 🔥

2:20 Early 2019, that can't be right? Munro's channel and the production Model Y are only a year old, or did they tear down a preproduction Y directly after the reveal in March 2019?

What about BYD’s solid state battery? It seems that they have that ready for cars soon.

Where is the part that shows battery swapping video? Thanks.

Hi Sandy! I just wanted to know if you did any research on Stanley Meyer's hydrogen car and his method for producing hydrogen on demand? Thank you

Interesting

Well, they are standardizing on the Tesla plug.

a ventilation safety device for batttery packs can help it to breath fresh air and out. Also act as safety device in an evetn of thermal runaway.

32:42 Wow it actually has a similar design to the ALICE

Do you think that the TESLA charging infrastructure will be forced to convert the Supercharger network to allow other vehicles charging?

The main reason that batteries will win out over hydrogen is that hydrogen has a negative EROI (energy returned on investment) of 1 to 5. That is one gets 1 unit of equivalent energy of hydrogen for every 5 units of energy input. An energy source of less than 10 to 1 (getting 10 units of energy for every 1 unit of energy input) is considered to be below the threshold needed for an industrial society. Renewable electricity is ~20 to 1, petroleum is ~14-20 to 1, and Canadian tar sand oil is ~3 to 1.

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Airlines/aviation have been using autopilots for decades, to reduce crew fatigue and improve reliability/safety.

How a professional ever can write „Kwh“ instead of „kWh“ in his presentation?😱

One question to Mr Munro, concerning the structural resistance of the one-piece front and rear car bodies. Too rigid, means that, in case of accident, the forces coming from the outside will go integrally to the drivers, passengers and cargo (the problem with chassis made cars, like old VW Beatle). What about this?

Sandy, you have reached the professor level and you deserve a chair when you get tired. I hate to see you endure pain to give me so much info. You gotta take a little guru posture cause that’s what you are. Brian

Munro is the real GOAT

Where is BYD in this presentation ? For all i know,they're blade battery is the best currently.

Toyota is not useing the prius anymore ?

The most overlooked hydrogen storage option for fuel cells or for combustion is liquid ammonia.

Sandy, could nasa’s cryofluid capacitor be used to store hydrogen for commercial trucking and vtol?

eVTOL? UAE and China are piloting ‘Unman Drone Taxi’ between urban to urban (big city) and urban to suburban with batteries operated for 2 and 4 seaters. It makes senses Dow few reasons. Firstly it’s autopilot so no license or pilot required. Secondly drones talk to each other (drone swamps) which means the taxi fleet could comply with aviation regulations for traffic control and safety purposes. Lastly is maintenance, a taxi fleet with equipped with knowledgeable engineers with routinely check list according to requirements while personal one could created issues either personal discipline or service quality.

In the old days, the stiff one piece construction of the race cars lead to more driver concussions from crashes. The crumple zones helped reduce occupants from sudden acceleration during crashes. Is the solid one piece body cast bringing us back to this problem, or is all solved with air bags or something else?

Interesting that Sandy commented on the potential for a car from Apple. He's said numerous times that he has an NDA and can't speak about it. Here he seemed to casually dismiss it as unlikely and not their strong suit 1:23:00

Mega Casting will rule. The platform is decades ahead of current technology.

Elon Musk started at Stanford to work on PhD with a project of how to use capacitors in electric cars. After less than a week he left Stanford to start Zip2.

Inertia drives are the future

where can i get that batery stl?

Please keep power and energy units straight, GWh is gigawatt-hours of energy, GW = gigawatts is a unit of power.