Recharging Your Electric Vehicle in 5 Minutes? Israeli Company Says It’s Developed a Technology
Does the idea of being able to recharge your electric vehicle sound appealing to you? An Israeli company says it has been able to produce, in factory, a battery pack that allows for just that. This marks another big step forward towards the ultimate goal of owners being able to recharge their EVs in the same amount of time it takes to fill up a gas tank.
From the time electric vehicles first began to appear, the question of recharging time has been a central concern. While EV owners today can generally manage very well using Level 2 charging stations that can recharge a vehicle with a range of about 400 km in about 9 hours, it still takes more than an hour to do so even on a very fast Level 3 recharging system.
With the latter system, it is possible to recover a good part of a battery electric vehicle in 20 or 30 minutes, but for a large majority of the population, that is still not enough. As long as it takes much longer than filling a gas tank, some will scoff.
That's why a battery that can be recharged in five minutes could change everything.
British media outlet The Guardian reported today on the new ultra-fast rechargeable batteries Israeli company StoreDot says it is able to manufacture.
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