This EV Battery Could Fully Charge In 5 Minutes Enevate promises...

This EV Battery Could Fully Charge In 5 Minutes

Enevate promises charge times comparable to filling up the gas tank.

By far the biggest challenge facing the widespread adoption of electric vehicles is the long time it takes to recharge them. Sabrina faced this when she took a Zero SR/F from Toronto to Montreal and back.

The bike was excellent, but the charging situation, not so much.

Even Tesla, with its high-speed Supercharger network, still takes "around 45-50 minutes in city centers" to charge—not exactly a NASCAR "splash and dash."

Battery companies are well aware of this limitation, and one of them, Enevate, believes it has the solution.

While some manufacturers are looking into battery exchanges to speed up recharging, Enevate wants to make vehicle batteries that will charge as quickly as filling your gas tank.

Enevate claims that with their batteries, it will be possible to recharge an electric car to 75 percent charge in as little as five minutes.

Motorcycles, with much smaller batteries, would likely charge even faster. They also claim to provide 30 percent more range than traditional batteries. Importantly for northern climates, Enevate says their batteries will have more than 100 percent better cold-weather performance.

While not as relevant to motorcycles, which don't typically travel in sub-zero temperatures, this is a huge deal for cars, as one writer discovered driving an electric car through the middle of nowhere during a Quebec winter.

This sounds not only great but perhaps too good to be true. After all, we've seen vaporware before, more than once. Enevate has an interesting video to demonstrate the superiority of their battery design.

We are unable to embed it here, but you can see it on the front page of their website.

It demonstrates two very small batteries, one of traditional design and one of theirs, getting just 10 seconds of charge.

These batteries then go into identical toy electric cars and are set loose on a track. The car with the standard battery makes it two laps before it runs out of juice.

The car with the Enevate battery not only goes 18 laps, but it's also much faster than the car with the traditional battery until the last couple of laps. This is extremely promising, on a small scale.

How well will this technology scale up to practical vehicle batteries?

At this point, we don't know.

Some key players are already watching, from car manufacturers like Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi to electronics manufacturers like Samsung, LG, and Lenovo. Enevate expects to commercialize its technology sometime in 2024 or 2025, so we may not have long to wait before seeing results.

While we still need an effective charging infrastructure for electric vehicles to become just as practical as those that run on dead dinosaurs, being able to take a charge as fast as a fill-up would be a huge step in the right direction toward everyday practicality.


Charge Electric Vehicles as Fast as Refueling Gas Cars

Enevate Technology is a Game Changer for Electric Vehicles​

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles has long been hindered by a set of core concerns.

Enevate is overcoming these barriers one-by-one:

Pain Points for EV Adoption:

• Long, inconvenient charging time
• Driving distance and range anxiety
• Price premium over gas cars
• Low-temp performance
• Safety

Enevate Delivers:

• 10X faster charging; 5-minute Extreme Fast Charge
• 30% more EV range, higher energy density
• Enables lower cost and affordable EVs
• >100% better low temperature performance
• Safer battery with no lithium plating

Making EVs Affordable, Convenient and Desirable​

An EV battery is more than the equivalent of a gas tank. It’s the vehicle’s powertrain — the largest, most expensive, and most critical component.

The EV battery dictates the range, recharge time, performance, handling, power, cost, safety, and essentially all the critical design aspects of the entire car.

Li-ion battery technology has advanced with newer batteries able to charge up to ten times faster and provide longer range (higher energy density) than today’s conventional EV batteries.

So why aren’t we already living in a world where EVs have replaced cars that run on fossil fuels?

The combination of lack of range and long charging time has forced EVs to use unnecessarily large and expensive batteries.

Battery cost makes up a significant portion of an EV’s price, and traditional batteries haven’t exactly wowed the public in terms of range and energy density.

Widespread adoption will only happen when EVs are finally able to meet consumer (and fleet) expectations for convenience and affordability.

That will make EVs more convenient than gas cars, and more affordable to millions of people to own and enjoy.

Now’s the time.

It’s All About Breakthrough Batteries​

With traditional EV batteries, you can expect to wait at least a couple of hours for a full vehicle charge.

But new, extreme fast-charging, high-density battery technology from Enevate cuts vehicle charge time from hours to minutes.

This results in charging times 10x faster than today’s conventional EV batteries.

That means you can head out on the road, knowing it may only take five or ten minutes to “refuel” your EV at a fast charging station along a street or highway.

For road trips, extreme fast charge allows you to get to your destination in the same trip time as a gas car.

Homeowners can head out with an EV fully charged at home—not possible in a gas car.

Apartment dwellers can quickly and easily recharge on the road or when they arrive at their destination.

Our high-energy-density batteries not only charge fast, but also hold more charge.

There’s a longer technical explanation, but the bottom line is our batteries will give your EV a range that’s five to ten times farther with the same charge time as other batteries.

With Enevate’s battery innovation, you can often fuel up as quickly as you can with gas or diesel. This opens the floodgates for EV ridesharing, autonomous electric fleets, and affordable EV options for auto consumers.
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Extreme Fast Charging Technology Changes Everything​

Extreme fast charging technology seeds the virtuous cycle of technology adoption.

With Enevate’s innovative battery technology, locations can realistically integrate drive-through electric charging, knowing that, at minutes-per-charge, customer throughput won’t create a bottleneck.

And when gas stations become extreme fast charging stations, drivers can take EVs anywhere they want.

Fire Hose vs. Garden Hose​

Fill up quick, drive farther. Enevate batteries are uniquely engineered for incredibly fast charging—as convenient as fueling a gas car.

Li-ion cells with Enevate’s HD-Energy technology can complete a charge in just 5 minutes.

Electric vehicles using batteries with Enevate technology can drive 30% further than vehicles with other conventional batteries. The ability to pack more power into a high-density cell is possible via the silicon-dominant anodes at the core of Enevate’s HD-Energy^® Technology.

See for Yourself​

Witness how much more range is achieved with a fast charge battery technology versus a standard charge battery when both are charged the same amount of time.​

Watch Now

www.enevate.com/technology/hd-energy-technology/


Interesting, Very Interesting indeed, as "The Plot Thickens" as the say