From zero to charge in 5 minutes: the extraordinary result of the new Israeli battery
From empty battery to full charge in just five minutes : an Israeli start-up has developed a technology that could eliminate the problem of range of electric cars, and more.
Ultra-fast charging specialists StoreDot have developed a completely new lithium-ion battery that can compete with the time to fill up with an internal combustion car at the pump, or erase the anxieties of charging your phone.
“We are changing the whole driver experience by eliminating the problem of 'range anxiety'… being stuck on the freeway with no energy,” said StoreDot founder Doron Myersdorf. His company, based in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, is backed by four key investors: German carmaker Daimler, Britain's British Petroleum and electronics giants Samsung and TDK.
Myersdorf, who founded the company in 2012, tested the battery on phones, drones and scooters, before taking on the grand prize of electric vehicles. The fact is that Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2019 for the invention of the lithium battery did not have the problem of charging speed, but that of offering a large supply of energy with a limited weight. It was from this consideration that Myersdorf started in his project to improve the battery to make it easy to charge.
The first change was the replacement of the graphite anode, normally used in lithium batteries, with silicon. therefore a controlled atmosphere production process that completely excludes oxygen from the production process. Currently, 800 prototypes of these new batteries have been produced and are undergoing testing, but the team is already working on a second generation of batteries to reduce production costs. Normally the development cycle of such a system is 4 years but they are working to make it much shorter.
On the street, however, charging stations are expected to be adapted for next-generation batteries, costing between $ 1,500 and $ 10,000 depending on capacity. Because, having solved the problem of charging times, there would be that of the basic technical infrastructure.
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