New technique designed to charge the electric vehicles quickly

Chao Yang Wang, from Penn State University, has designed a new technique that would help charge the battery-driven vehicles in as little as 10 minutes. As we know, the main benefit of oil-driven cars against battery-driven cars is that it doesn’t take long for oil-driven cars to have a full tank of oil that would run for at least 2400km. While the use of battery-driven cars is cheap and environment-friendly, it takes a while to be fully charged.

Electric cars have come in fashion in recent days, and scientists across the globe have been in an attempt to make it, even more, user-friendly. But the apple of discord among scientists lies in the fact that whether it is possible for electric cars to rapidly take in huge kilowatts of power so that it gets charged easily and rapidly. A group of them disagree saying the lithium ions would form a layer of deposit on the negative electrode that can reduce the strength of the battery.

The genius idea by Wang changed the perspective through which we looked at the problem. He suggested that we heat the battery beforehand as a result of which the unwanted layer would not be able to form. After several experiments, it was found that by heating the electrode to 60 degrees, the battery was allowed to recharge by 2500 cycles without forming the lithium film. Wang has thus proved that it is indeed possible to use lithium batteries to speedily charge electric cars.

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