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'Game-changing' new battery for electric cars charges in 3 minutes and lasts for 20 YEARS - more than twice as long as current EV batteries
Daily Mail ^ | Published: 21:24 EDT, 15 September 2022 | Updated: 21:46 EDT, 15 September 2022 | Jonathan Chadwick

Posted on 09/15/2022 9:24:36 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

A 'game-changing' new battery for electric vehicles (EVs) that charges in three minutes and lasts for 20 years could soon be coming to new cars.

Adden Energy, a start-up based in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been granted a licence and $5.15 million in funding to build the battery design at scale to fit in EVs.

The battery, developed by Harvard scientists, is lithium metal, rather than lithium ion found in EVs that are already on the market.

Its intricate design, inspired by a BLT sandwich, prevents the growth of troublesome 'dendrites' that grow in lithium-metal batteries and shorten their lifespan.

The new technology has been created by Xin Li and colleagues at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).

Adden Energy was co-founded in 2021 by Li, along with William Fitzhugh and Luhan Ye, both of whom contributed to the development of the technology as graduate students in Li’s Harvard lab.

The startup aims to scale the battery up to a palm-sized 'pouch cell' – which has components enclosed in an aluminium-coated film – and then toward a full-scale vehicle battery in the next three to five years.

'We have achieved in the lab 5,000 to 10,000 charge cycles in a battery's lifetime, compared with 2,000 to 3,000 charging cycles for even the best in class now, and we don’t see any fundamental limit to scaling up our battery technology,' said Li. 'That could be a game changer.'

Lithium-metal batteries hold substantially more energy in the same volume and charge in a fraction of the time compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries.

But they're prone to the formation of 'dendrites' – tiny, rigid tree-like structures that speed up battery failure.

Researchers have therefore tried to harness the potential of solid-state, lithium-metal batteries, using a unique BLT-inspired design.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Zhang Fei

lemme guess the lithium comes from Ukraine


41 posted on 09/15/2022 10:21:33 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: TexasGator

Actually “charger” not “charge.”

All of my post was ironic and sarcastic. I am saying not to believe the lies that the charger will last 20 years of use.

I am not drunk. I never, ever drink because my late mother was an abusive, narcissistic alcoholic and I don’t want to risk drinking.


42 posted on 09/15/2022 10:23:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: TexasGator

i x e = w


43 posted on 09/15/2022 10:24:57 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: ConservativeMind

Odd coincidence.
You and a radio person mentioned interlibrary loan, the library work in which I labored from 1969-2017. I never saw or heard it mentioned in my life and now twice in a few days. Odd.


44 posted on 09/15/2022 10:26:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

Three times now...


45 posted on 09/15/2022 10:30:06 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Yo-Yo; TexasGator

“ would require 2 Megawatts of energy to be delivered to the battery”

What you meant was it would take a 2 MW charger operating for 3 minutes.


46 posted on 09/15/2022 10:30:17 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: frank ballenger

Thank you for your work!

I have had to reach beyond local libraries more than a few times, in my life, and such an exchange was sometimes priceless.


47 posted on 09/15/2022 10:33:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Aww, there you go, bringing Math into it!


48 posted on 09/15/2022 10:36:50 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: Zhang Fei

Color me skeptical


49 posted on 09/15/2022 10:38:53 PM PDT by toddausauras (Stop ALL immigration NOW. )
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To: willk; Zhang Fei

“Love my EV but none of this means anything if we don’t have the electicity to charge these vehicles. It’s gonna require gobs of fossil fuels to produce the electricity.”

With batteries that last that long, and are compact, solar and wind energy finally become practical.

Gives you the ability to generate lots of excess solar electricity and store it and use the stored electrify when the sun don’t shire or the wind don’t blow.

If these reports are anywhere near the truth, it would be a huge game changer... and I would want to invest a bunch of money in that company.

Guees what else will also happen if this were to become reality? The econuts would be against it... because they’re against anything that actually works!


50 posted on 09/15/2022 10:39:11 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Zhang Fei

makes the dudes in Utah with their “cold fusion” BS sound sane.


51 posted on 09/15/2022 10:40:39 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: I-ambush

...or by my PBR-sourced, sustainable one


52 posted on 09/15/2022 10:41:09 PM PDT by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: Zhang Fei

Want to get this company ends up being another Solyndra, the government money is FLOWING NOW!!!


53 posted on 09/15/2022 10:44:06 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Yo-Yo

The only rapid-charge station will be located atop Hoover Dam.

1.21 gw fast-charge regular...


54 posted on 09/15/2022 10:44:47 PM PDT by Bobalu (Only the children are blameless....)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

get = bet OOPS


55 posted on 09/15/2022 10:44:56 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I predict they will go far.............INTO DEBT


56 posted on 09/15/2022 10:45:59 PM PDT by Bobalu (Only the children are blameless....)
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To: DaxtonBrown
The battery busses in a telco central office are carrying -48 volts @ 5000 amps continuous. They are built with laminated aluminum to remain strong enough to deal with the generated magnetic field without twisting out of the support frameworks. The battery racks have lead/acid cells the size of a 30 gallon trash can with the acid open to room air.

The picture above is a lot nicer than what was common when I was a telco central office equipment engineer in the early 80s. The batteries looked like a 30 gallon trash can made of a thick, transparent lucite. It was filled with acid and plates submerged. There were still SxS and #5 crossbar switches mixed with new #1AESS, Northern Telecom digital switches and D4 carrier banks. T1/T1C DSX cross connect panels were new installs at the time.

57 posted on 09/15/2022 10:52:01 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: TexasGator
We have lots of spare capacity from 9PM to 9AM when most charging would be done. LOTS!
You know, I simply forgot that those dark time hours are when those solar cells are working best! And, historically, the wind is naturally much steadier at night.

Now that you've pointed it out, I see no downside to curtailing fossil fuel power generation.

58 posted on 09/15/2022 10:54:38 PM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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To: Yo-Yo

Sounds like recipie for Arc flash.


59 posted on 09/15/2022 11:04:02 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: Zhang Fei

IF it actually works, the ChiComs will be producing it before an American company can. We pay for the development and they steal it and sell it back to us.

What was Huawei before they stole Nortel’s research? A third rate company in a fourth rate country! What did True-dolt do about the investigation into Nortel’s demise and how the ChiComs stole all its secrets? He shelved the investigation, like a good little globalist. TUCK FRUDEAU!


60 posted on 09/15/2022 11:08:01 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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