Posted on 05/23/2026 6:44:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
The battery retained 76 percent capacity after 500 consecutive six-minute charging cycles.
Charging an electric vehicle fast without degrading the battery has been one of the harder problems in battery research. A team at Adelaide University says it has a way through it.
Six minutes. That is how long it took their new battery cell to reach 85 percent charge, while delivering an energy density of 240.4 watt-hours per kilogram.
The result comes from a team led by Professor Shi-Zhang Qiao, an ARC Industry Laureate Fellow in the University’s School of Chemical Engineering, working alongside researchers from Imperial College London.
Why fast charging has been hard to crack The issue with existing high-capacity batteries, silicon-anode and lithium-anode types, is that speed comes at a cost. Capacity fades quickly, and fast charging generates heat that accelerates that degradation and raises safety concerns.
“Current models also increase heat generation during fast charging, which can exacerbate battery degradation and safety risks,” Professor Qiao said. “Until now, achieving more than 90 per cent charge within 10 minutes without sacrificing energy density and cycle life has been a formidable challenge.”
Standard approaches involve reworking the electrolyte — the medium ions travel through inside the cell. But changes to the electrolyte affect the whole system and tend to compromise ionic conductivity elsewhere.
What this approach does instead Rather than modifying the electrolyte throughout, Qiao’s team targeted only the electrode surface. The method uses sulfur vacancies as catalytic sites that attract specific anions to the battery interface during charging, promoting the formation of a compact, lithium fluoride-rich protective layer (the solid electrolyte interphase) with fast lithium-ion transport pathways built into it.
“The catalytic sites on the electrode surface attract anions to the battery interface and promote the formation of a robust inorganic protective layer, which is critical for fast charging and long-term stability,” Professor Qiao said. “Unlike traditional electrolyte engineering, which often affects the entire electrolyte system, this strategy regulates reactions only at the interface, allowing fast charging without sacrificing ionic conductivity.”
The silicon anode achieved an average coulombic efficiency — how much charge put in can be drawn back out — of approximately 99.94 percent. At 10 minutes, the cells reached 91.4 percent.
How it held up over time After 500 consecutive six-minute charge cycles, the cells retained around 76 percent of their original capacity.
“Our test cell exhibited excellent performance, achieving about 76 percent capacity retention after 500, six-minute cycles,” Professor Qiao said in a press release. “The cells also exhibited excellent stability at 10 minutes of charging. The discovery could help enable electric vehicles that charge in minutes without sacrificing battery life or energy density.”
The team’s next step is scaling the technology and testing it under real operating conditions. Their findings are published in Nature Energy.
Electric bills in my state are going up 17% because of data centers and EV’s
See posts by Manhattan Contrarian. He lays it out very well.
You don’t start day 1 in heavy traffic - you instead ease into situations, and as it handles more and more complex situations, you allow it to try.
You JOB is to sit there and grab the wheel or hit the brakes if needed.
Tesla does NOT say you are supposed to reading your email or watching a video - in fact it will disengage if you do that. Meanwhile, i pass people “driving” on their phone not paying attention while “driving” all the time. It’s one reason for the wrecks and why we sit at traffic lights after it turns green because they are scrolling.
If you are interested, there are plenty of videos on youtube of FSD, just make sure it’a a recent one, as the rate of improvement is pretty steep.
The end result is this - 1 hour of Dallas traffic and your blood pressure is up and you feel like you have been beat when you get home....But with FSD driving and just having to jump in if needed, it’s not bad - you arrive relaxed.
If batteries were capable of decent energy density, the lowest cost per btu energy source could be used to charge them.
FFS just let CATL sell these cells to makers here.
https://electrek.co/2026/04/21/catl-one-ups-byd-new-lfp-ev-battery-charges-in-6-mins/
“CATL’s third-generation Shenxing battery can charge from 10% to 98% in 6 minutes and 27 seconds. In just 1 minute, the battery charges from 10% to 35%, while charging from 10% to 80% takes 3 minutes and 44 seconds.”
“Even at temperatures as low as -30°C (-20°F), CATL said its new LFP battery can recharge from 20% to 98% in as little as 9 minutes.”
10% to 35%: 1 minute
10% to 80%: 3 minutes 44 seconds
10% to 98%: 6 minutes 27 seconds
At -30°C to 98%: 9 minutes
“After 1,000 ultra-fast charging cycles, the battery maintains a State of Health (SoH) above 90%.”
These are 1000-1500km pack sizes
At 1000 cycles to 90% SOH is 950,000km using a straight line desegregation to 90% SOH at the 1000 cycle.
That’s 590302.633 mouth breather units and well over 36 years of the average mileage driven of 14000
The average American driver travels about 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year, while the average individual light-duty vehicle logs roughly 11,000 to 11,400 miles annually.
The breakdown and context for these numbers include:
Per Vehicle: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) data shows that light-duty vehicles (including passenger cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks) average about 10,812 to 11,026 miles.
Per Driver: When looking strictly at licensed drivers, the annual average sits closer to 12,200 to 13,600 miles.Vehicle
Type Variations: Sedans and passenger cars tend to average around 12,000 miles, whereas light trucks and SUVs log higher averages of 14,000 to 15,000 miles.
No need for new tech CATL has the ICE killer in production right now today. Let them sell them that s all GTFO damn way.
“Electric bills in my state are going up 17% because of data centers and EV’s”
Data centres yup EVs not so much.
You obviously have zero idea how much an EV uses.
The avg American sedan drives 11,000 miles per year, with avg daily trip under 30 miles total and 96% of ALL trips under 36 miles total.
A Tesla model 3 AC ripping and 75 mph on a tollway will go 4 miles per kWh you put in it. City grid lock is closer to 6 miles per kWh but we will rip the speed and AC. Like I do in DFW so 250wh/mi is real.world every day numbers.
A 30 mile daily avg is 7.5 kWh and with L2 charging and AC>DC>pack losses it’s 9% we will round up to 10% that s 8.25kWh from the plug then.
Go look at your clothes dryer it’s on a NEMA circuit and has a running amp of 30 mine does. That’s 7kw worth.
Charging at 38 amps the max for most L2 is not much different than running your clothes dryer,and it takes 54 min to put back the 30 miles the average drivers uses per day. You trying to tell us that running a load the equivalent to one hour of drying clothes is stressing the grid. Nah dude the Manhattan C is a blowhard and full of it most of the time for clicks.
My EVs plural charge off panels above them. 4*650 watt panels supply enough energy throughout the year to full charge them for every mile they go.
No one anywhere has a functional oil refinery in their back yard you can have panels anywhere including vertical has solar bifacial fences instead of wood fences.
I am laughing my a$$ off at $5-7 gasoline in commie states it’s $4.19 in Texas I saw ha embrace the suck us EV guys are LOVING IT Crow is a dish best served cold.
Oh and my Model 3 was 20,000 cheaper at purchase than the Volvo it replaced sweet sweet Crow
I suspect the post is directed to roving.
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