An environmentally safe, inexpensive battery developed at Singapore’s Nanyang Technology University (NTU) could lead to electric cars that charge 70 percent in two minutes, and it has a shelf life of more than 20 years. Could this mean bye-bye gas station for today’s fence sitters, or is this just another hopeful battery story prompting excitement, that has hidden holdbacks?
According to NTU, while there’s room for further development, the light is green, and they’ve already licensed the nanotech battery technology to a company with time to market projected at two years as the researchers work on larger batteries for larger applications.
“Electric cars will be able to increase their range dramatically, with just five minutes of charging, which is on par with the time needed to pump petrol for current cars,” said team leader, Associate Professor Chen Xiaodong from NTU’s School of Materials Science and Engineering. “Equally important, we can now drastically cut down the toxic waste generated by disposed batteries, since our batteries last ten times longer than the current generation of lithium-ion batteries.”
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