The time it takes an electric car to fully recharge from empty has always been the technology’s Achilles heel, with even a so-called rapid-charge taking half an hour for a car. So Nissan has Developed 10-Minute Rapid Charger For Leaf Electric Car.
As most consumers will tell you, they think electric cars should refuel as quickly as gasoline ones.
As most consumers will tell you, they think electric cars should refuel as quickly as gasoline ones.
But that goal might soon be in sight thanks to a joint project between Kansai University in Japan and Nissan’s own team of electric car engineers. Between them, the team has managed to develop charging hardware a new type of battery system which reduces the time it takes to rapid charge a car like the 2012 Nissan Leaf from 30 minutes to just 10 minutes.
By replacing the battery with capacitors and changing the electrode material inside capacitors from carbon to tungsten oxide and vanadium oxide, the engineers discovered the power circuits inside the car could the charger could handle more power, increasing the amount of power that could be safely fed into the car’s battery pack. In other words, the advance isn't in battery technology, it's in charging technology. , allowing the car to charge more quickly than a conventional battery could.
But anyway, this charger to be used commercially, it's going to take some time.
So at the moment we should be happy to have the 30 minutes charger, a fter all, that’s not much slower than the time it takes you to visit the restroom, buy a "Maly banis" and and a cup of nice plain tea and have a chat , now is it? :))
But anyway, this charger to be used commercially, it's going to take some time.
So at the moment we should be happy to have the 30 minutes charger, a fter all, that’s not much slower than the time it takes you to visit the restroom, buy a "Maly banis" and and a cup of nice plain tea and have a chat , now is it? :))
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