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Credit: HoLa Consortium In the HoLa project, a total of eight high-performance charging points for trucks using the Megawatt Charging System (MCS) are being installed at five locations along the A2 between Berlin and the Ruhr region and used in real logistics operations. Recommendations for action have been derived from the research results available to date that contain important findings for a nationwide expansion of…

One of the biggest hurdles in getting more people to adopt electric vehicles is how slowly they recharge. While EV chargers have come a long way, they still take some time to recharge, which is why we see them at places like movie theaters and supermarkets. But what if a fast-charging EV battery could change all of that?A group of researchers working at Cornell University have made an interesting breakthrough. According to a new paper the researchers published in Joule, their charger could make it possible to…

Credit: Joule (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.12.022 A team in Cornell Engineering has created a new lithium battery that can charge in under five minutes—faster than any such battery on the market—while maintaining stable performance over extended cycles of charging and discharging.…

Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven’t come far enough. They charge faster than ever before, but there’s still room for improvement. The materials they’re made of, particularly cobalt and nickel, are pricey and problematic. Researchers have been scrambling to find alternative materials, from manganese to sodium. Now they might have another: TAQ. Unlike nearly every other lithium-ion battery chemistry, TAQ is an organic compound — not the free-range hippie type,…

Sometime in 2024, maybe as early as February, half a dozen electric vehicle charging companies will face a reckoning. For years, they had little competition except for each other, which is to say, not much. Soon, though, they’ll have to contend with Tesla’s much-lauded Supercharger network. The EV world, from a charging perspective, was previously split in two. There was Tesla and then there was everyone else. Tesla owners enjoyed widespread, speedy and reliable charging. Everyone else made do…

Having to stop and wait for an e-moto battery to recharge can sure take the joy out of clean riding. But Chinese e-mobility multinational Yadea is looking to change that with the Kemper performance bike, which can be fast-charged to 80% in just 10 minutes.The Kemper follows the EICMA 2022 launch of an entry level e-moto called the Keeness VFD, which debuted with a 10-kW motor for a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph) and a dual removable battery packs reported good for up to 129 km (80 miles) of per-charge range.The new…

We've been covering the promise of five-minute EV charging technology from Israeli tech company StoreDot since a time when electric vehicles were more of an afterthought in the automotive market. Every time it seems like the tech is getting close to ready for real cars or products in the actual real world, things get pushed back or go quiet. But the company says its "100-in-5" batteries are on track for mass production readiness by 2025 and is now teaming with Polestar to present the first full-scale prototype using the…

Image Source : PIXABAY Fast charging dominates global smartphone sales in Q1: Report The sales of fast charging-based (over 10 watts) smartphones accounted for almost 80 per cent of the global smartphone market in the first quarter (Q2) of 2023, compared to 74 per cent in Q1 2022 and 29 per cent in Q1 2018, a new report showed on Thursday. According to…

It's often the case that technologies developed for racing vehicles trickle down to the wider automotive market. With an endurance race in its sights, a team of more than 30 students at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands has developed a technology that's successfully fast-charged a 250-km battery pack in under four minutes.A few years ago, 10 students from TU/e joined forces to create the InMotion team, with hopes of building a technologically advanced electric racer that could take part in the…

From more chargers to improved reliability and apps, consider this a bill of rights for EV drivers who need to fast charge People love their electric vehicles. In survey after survey, the vast majority of EV owners say that their next car will also be electric. EVs score top marks nearly across the board except one: fast charging. While most people do almost all of their charging at home, fast charging is still a critical piece of EV ownership. For some people, it enables them to…