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E-car batteries produced for the first time that charge in five minutes
E-cars still scare off many people. Price and battery life are two of the reasons. Charging time soon to be a non-issue with fast-charging batteries.
Herzliya-just drive to the gas station, put the nozzle in the car, and after a few minutes you’re back on the road with a full tank of gas-electric cars simply can’t compete with internal combustion engines when it comes to speed of refueling. At least until now. For the first time, e-car batteries have now been developed that can be fully charged within five minutes.
The new lithium-ion batteries were developed by the israeli company storedot and produced in china, as reported by the british daily guardian. It is not the first fast-charging battery to come from storedot. Already being used in smartphones, drones and scooters. The 1.000 batteries the company had made in china are now to be demonstrated to carmakers and other companies. According to the guardian, daimler and samsung, among others, have already invested in the company, which has raised 130 million US dollars.
E-cars: fear that batteries won’t last for long distances
Fast-charging batteries could be an important step in making e-cars more attractive to consumers. Because many drivers fear that the battery is not suitable for long distances and they have to wait for hours on the road until the battery is full again. Provided the infrastructure allows for a charging station at all. Because in frankfurt, for example, charging stations for e-cars* are in short supply (fnp.De reported). Against this backdrop, a full battery within five minutes could help electric cars achieve a major breakthrough.
"the biggest obstacle to the adoption of electric vehicles is no longer cost, but range anxiety," storedot CEO doron myersdorf told the guardian. "they are either afraid to stop on the highway, or they have to sit at a charging station for two hours. But if the driver’s experience is just like filling up [a gasoline car], all that fear goes away. "
Fast-charging e-car batteries: suitable sockets are lacking
The catch: conventional sockets are not designed for this power, they would have to be much more powerful. With the sockets currently in use, it will not be possible to charge the storedot batteries in five minutes for a capacity of around 160 kilometers until 2025. "the bottleneck in extra-fast charging is no longer the battery," myersdorf said. Now the charging stations and networks that power them would need to be upgraded.
storedot’s battery is also no longer a laboratory prototype, but "technical samples from a mass production line," said myersdorf. "this shows that it is feasible and commercially operational."batteries like these will be available for the mass market in three years, professor chao-yang wang of the battery and energy storage technology center at pennsylvania state university in the u.s. estimates to the newspaper. "they won’t be more expensive, in fact they will allow automakers to downsize the onboard battery while eliminating range anxiety, drastically reducing vehicle battery costs."