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New Technology

I thought I’d share this article that shows that recharge times on batteries are shortening. Who knows, we might be able to recharge in the time it takes to fill a fuel tank. That’ll have the IC guys wondering (we can already add more realistic sound).

Korean carbon-coated lithium-ion battery could cut recharge times down to minutes

By Jon Fingas posted Aug 15th 2012 7:31PM

Korean, carboncoated lithiumion battery could cut recharge times down to minutes

Anyone who’s had to recharge an EV — or, for that matter, any mobile device with a very big battery — knows the pain of waiting for hours while a lithium-ion pack tops up. South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology has developed a conduction technique that could cut that charging time down to less than a minute. By dousing the nanoparticle materials of the battery in a graphitesolution that’s then carbonized, the researchers make a web of conductors that all start charging at once; current batteries have to charge towards the center slowly, like a not-very-edible Tootsie Pop. The immediate goal is to develop a secondary battery for an EV that could provide extra mileage in a matter of seconds. Here’s hoping that the Ulsan team’s fast-charging battery is more viable than others and spreads to just about everything — we’d love to have EVs and laptops alike that power up in as much time as it takes to fill a traditional car at the pump.

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