Batteries go from completely dead to fully charged in 5 minutes! An Israeli start-up has developed a technology that it claims will put an end to the “Range Anxiety” associated with electric vehicles.
StoreDot, a fast-charging technology company, has developed a fast-charging lithium battery that takes about the same amount of Time to fill up as a typical car at a gas station.
StoreDot founder Doron Myersdorf said: “We want to completely change the driver’s experience and change the problem of range anxiety… That is, the fear of being immobilized on the road without power.” He said the innovative technology could make charging electric vehicles, which can take hours, a thing of the past.
While several manufacturers are testing hundreds of prototype batteries, Myersdorf’s Herzliya, Israel-based company has four key investors, including German automaker Daimler, British Petroleum and electronics giants Samsung (Samsung) and Japan’s Toden Chemical Co. (TDK).
After testing batteries for cell phones, Drones and motorcycles, Myersdorf founded the company in 2012 and is now working on batteries for electric vehicles.
In 2019, German-American physicist John Goodenough, Britain’s Stanley Whittingham and Japan’s Akira Yoshino were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their outstanding contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, but Myersdorf said the battery design that year was not for charging “Speed” award, so he began to study “everyone thought impossible”, that is, within minutes of the function of the lithium battery.
Myersdorf said: “We want to show that by replacing some of the materials in the lithium battery, you can make it fully charged in five minutes.”
Myersdorf replaced the graphite in the negative electrode of the lithium battery with silicone, “using the amazingly innovative technology of the lithium battery and upgrading it to have ultra-fast charging capability.”
But Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (Roland Berger) analyst Eric Esperance warned that although fast-charging technology is “revolutionary,” there are still many development stages to go.
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