On September 27th, using the “Il Sagittario” race track in Latina about 70 km south of Rome, a new E-Cat demonstration was performed for a limited amount of invited guests.
Two Renault Twizy cars started at the same time, driving 200 m apart. One standard car with a fully charged 6 kWh battery and a second car with an installed 3 kW E-Cat (starting with a 62% battery charge).
The car without an E-Cat performed as expected, stopping due to a completely drained battery after driving approx. 70 km in about 2 hours. Total energy consumption naturally being 6 kWh (size of battery pack)
The car with an E-Cat installed continued to run for a total of 6 hours, traveling approximately 200 km. At that time the battery charge level had increased from 62% to 82% indicating that the 3 kW ECat was not only powering the car but also charging the battery. Total energy consumption for the drive probably being in the 20 kWh range.
I am of course aware of the discussions about the weight of the protective casing (approx. 80 kg, ie 250 Wh/kg). Here is my short analysis – Conclusion being that if Rossi was using a new battery/fuel cell technology it would probably be a lot MORE valuable and easy to sell than the E-Cat, due to the efficiency improvements made, compared to current best EV efforts.
As a comparison the 6 kWh Renault Twizy battery pack has a weight of approximately 100 kg. So already here there is an 400% efficiency improvement.
Looking at current EV battery packs on the market, taking into account the immense resources put into reducing overall weight and energy density at reasonable costs, we can see that most EV battery packs fall into the range of 150-200 Wh/kg (incl casing/cable overhead). This means that if using even the most advanced Tesla battery technology, a 20 kWh battery pack weight would still be in excess of 100 kg – ie. a ~30% improvement on current best effort from the billions spent on it by Tesla and others…
It is of course needless to say that such efficiency/range improvement would be extremely attractive on the market. Actually it would be a lot MORE VALUABLE than the E-Cat in the shorter time perspective, due to being a lot more believable and the overall maturity of the EV battery pack technology.
Also, since range is one of the big (biggest) downsides of EV tech, a 30% improvement is gigantic news in itself. It would be a very easy sell for Tesla (or any other company on the EV market)
Links to all the Leonardo Corp. videos from the test track:
Ecat Youtube Channel
LENR
As usual more information can be found at the E-Cat World website
From a German site crated by guests invited to the demo LENR.wiki