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One of the main reasons cited by the automakers for the rather sluggish introduction of pure EVs are the very long charge time, with some cars taking up to 8 hours to be fully charged from a standard home socket. All but the best fast chargers currently available will still have you waiting for hours rather than minutes before finishing their job, with the current best situated around the 30-minute mark.
However, this may change once Hydro-Quebec researchers achieve their rather ambitious goals of recharging an entire battery pack to its full capacity in under 5 minutes - to genuinely rival pulling up to the pumps and filling your tank with oil based fuels. They are currently able to recharge 1 lithium-ion cell in one minute, however, the Tesla Roadster, for instance, is powered by a pack containing no fewer than 6,700 of these cells.
The researchers have refused to give any further details, until the patents they have applied for go through - some time by the end of the year. Despite skeptics saying that charging an entire battery pack in 5 minutes is not possible, recent revolutionary batter tech is already available, so why not find an ultra-fast way of charging to go along with it. We hope they succeed and finally make cost-effective and practical EVs a reality, and not in 10 years' time.
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The researchers have refused to give any further details, until the patents they have applied for go through - some time by the end of the year. Despite skeptics saying that charging an entire battery pack in 5 minutes is not possible, recent revolutionary batter tech is already available, so why not find an ultra-fast way of charging to go along with it. We hope they succeed and finally make cost-effective and practical EVs a reality, and not in 10 years' time.
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