Charge Your EV Battery in Minutes

I've read about these so-called short charging times for years now and the math never, ever stacks up. The big issue is the enormous current involved: 1) Getting it to the battery 2) The heating effect of such a current in a battery is enough to melt it/set it alight/explode it.

The idea that you can replace all the energy expended by an electric car in say 1 hour of driving in a mere 5 minutes is absurd. When driving a Leaf for instance at 70 mph, the batteries have to be force-cooled. Now imagine the battery withstanding 12 times that current during a "fast-charge." Don't forget I²R.

No-one ever explains how this is possible.

I thought the same thing, but the Israeli Engineers are pretty impressive, so I looked at the link. Pretty neat technology! It doesn't seem feasible for a retrofit on an existing eV, but for a redesign of a new car ... It does seem like a good idea and since Elon Musk is already working on a Supercharging infrastructure, you know it can't be too far away.

I remember just a short time ago, nobody thought Musk could get Tesla up and running, but he did. And his company builds a four door sleek sedan that will smoke almost every car you've ever seen on the road in a 0-60 drag race - I'll destroy a 1970 Hemi Cuda.

I heard that Musk is also planning on installing battery systems in homes. Store electricity when it's cheap (or extra from your solar system) and use it when demand is high. This man is pretty smart!

I finally got to that link, which was not available via Internet Explorer (so weird). It would seem that the Israeli company has developed a new type of Li-ion battery, which must have a much lower internal resistance, although they don't state that as such. If they are able to lower it by an order of magnitude, then much higher charging rates will be possible. But there is still the enormous power requirement involved and connection to the cells.