{"id":1209,"date":"2011-08-12T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T11:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atttraining.com\/auto\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2011-08-12T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T11:57:46","slug":"recharge-an-ev-in-a-few-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Recharge an EV in a few minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color:white\">I read about a new battery technology the other day, which I think could be an important part of the future for EVs. Clearly the problem with most EVs is range because if you run out of power then it can take several hours to recharge.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:white\">A team led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matse.illinois.edu\/faculty\/braun\/profile.html\" target=\"_blank\"\/><\/span><span style=\"color:#d81921\">Paul Braun<\/span>, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, have developed na<span style=\"background-color:white\">nostructure metal foam that can been used to make a small lithium-ion battery. The resulting battery can be charged to 90% in just two minutes. If the method can be further developed laptops could perhaps charge in a few minutes or eventually, perhaps even EVs may be able to recharge in 10 or 15 minutes? Not much longer than stopping for a tank of fuel.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:white\">The team made porous metal foams and coated this with a large amount of active battery material using electroplating techniques. The structure contains enough active material to store a sufficient amount of energy even though it is porous, which then has the advantage that ions can move easily.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:white\">Interesting stuff! More information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/37324\/\"\/><\/span>http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/37324\/\n<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read about a new battery technology the other day, which I think could be an important part of the future for EVs. Clearly the problem with most EVs is range because if you run out of power then it can take several hours to recharge. A team led by Paul Braun, professor of materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-ev-and-hybrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79TdE-jv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3264,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3264","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":0},"title":"EVs could travel five times further with new battery tech","author":"Tom Denton","date":"March 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A new type of automotive battery technology could be used to increase the range of electric vehicles (EVs) by up to five times.Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a solution that enables lithium-sulpher batteries, which have a much higher capacity than the lithium-ion technology currently used in EVs,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Automotive&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Automotive","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2443,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2443","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":1},"title":"Death by EV","author":"Tom Denton","date":"October 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Some automotive technicians are going to be killed by the high voltages on electric vehicles. 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But the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Automotive&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Automotive","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3177,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3177","url_meta":{"origin":1209,"position":3},"title":"Battery breakthroughs","author":"Tom Denton","date":"March 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that much more research is going into EVs, rather than ICE vehicles, the developments will keep coming - IMHO! 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