Does “electricty” or whatever it’s called that goes into your electric vehicle battery, have mass or weigh anything? My car has a 100KW battery. Is the weight substantially different when it has 0 charge versus when it is fully charged? It seems like a lot of energy goes into the battery, it must add to the net mass of the vehicle?
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Negligible but yess. based on https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-mass-of-a-battery-change-when-charged-discharged, your 100KW battery weighs 3.75×10^-8 kg less than when full.
Basically the weight of half an eyelash. (interestingly, about the same weight as the uncertainty in the kilogram before the watt balance redefinition)
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