This Battery Breakthrough Lets EVs Charge in MINUTES

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Range anxiety has more to do with fast charging availability instead of the EV's range. In other words if every exit on the interstate/highway had DC fast chargers then drivers wouldn't be worried about running out of charge because hey could always jus pull over at the next exit to charge. That does not mean we do not need sufficient range in EVs. I'm just addressing the anxiety cause by availability of charging which is incorrectly called range anxiety.

What is stopping me from going electric right now is the price. A local dealer, for instance, wants $12,000 over MSRP for the electric Hyundai on his lot and I've heard similar stories from around the country. Even without that markup, all new cars are just far out of most people's comfort zone at this point, as the medium (or maybe it was average) price of a new car, electric or not, was reported by Consumer Reports to be $46,000. Until prices come down, most people simply cannot afford to trade up to a new electric car, regardless of how good the range or how fast the charge time.

I was not aware that you could connect two extra batteries to increase the capacity of the Delta Max. That is sweet.

I drove a leased EV for 3 years, and generally loved it. The biggest problem for me was my location: I live in the northern US. In the winter, my EV would get at most just half of its stated range. And if I used the heater, it would cut that in half again. In warm weather, though, I rarely had range anxiety since I was just taking the car to work and back. But I'm glad that there's been so much EV tech development in the last few years.

I'm Brazilian and I don't know how to feel about it... Just like lithium largest reserves are causing tensions in Bolivia, Brazil is the largest reserve in Niobium and the next EV industry target. It's an opportunity but also a liability... and seeing the current government "legalize" mining in indigenous land makes me really sad. The state's former public company responsible for mining was privatized decades ago. The profits were privatized and do not go to public good. The mining company also had been involved in many environment disasters, most recently a damn holding heavy metal waste broke and destroyed the city of Brumadinho killing hundreds of people in the process while also contaminating the environment. People are still fighting to get compensations in the justice system. Now seeing this video I don't know how to call it... hope? despair? It's weird... They say niobium is strategic to the country, but I don't see my life directly changing because of it... The niobium (to be) oligarchs are trying to push the package of it being good for the economy, (because they might hold a monopoly). But knowing my country, the most probable future is privatized greed screwing the environment and rain forest and the public paying the price. They might possibly get the land of the "índios" along the way. It would be good if we were able to produce everything from universal materials like carbon, sodium, magnesium. A reliance on rare resources concentrated geographically will always lead to conflict. (internal and maybe even external)

IMO the main selling point of niobium battery is it's longer durability. And it would be perfect for electronics and home storage.

I charged my Volt overnight at 110V/12A, standard plug, standard outlet. That was enough for local driving. Fast charging is really only needed for long distance drives. A 20 minute break every few hours is no bad thing. Professional drivers have to take breaks, by law.

Let's give props to Matt for putting an effort in giving both Fahrenheit and Celcius temperature figures

i live in Mumbai, India. I have noticed an increase in number of ev's on road. whenever i get down even for a quick stroll i atleast see 2 ev's on the road. This is making me, very excited for ev's future in India.

Getting charging times down could really change the sustainability of EV in terms of battery materials needed. If a car only takes 10 minutes to charge back up, and charging infrastructure keeps growing, a lot of people are gonna be fine with 150-200 mile range instead of 300+

I'll point out that Lithium Titanate chemistry reached similar charge rates over a decade ago, proven by Aerovironment and Altairnano with a 5 minute charge. Cost and energy density were the limiting factors back then, both have been improved upon with the Toshiba Scib version of LiTi. I think they may also be working on a Niobium version as well.

Focusing on charge times is probably the least important aspect of BEV uptake. 350KW is an ungodly amount of power the average house is unlikely to even hit 10KW normally. I have an 80 amp 240V connection to the grid so 19.2KW. Most medium factories here usually have a 100-200 amp 240V 3 phase service so 144KW at the most. Having such high peak power draw would require way more grid infastructure than limiting most chargers to around 100KW which is still a shitload. Realistically I'd want a 5-10KW charger at home and better energy density per weight.

I’ve been saying it for years: swappable battery packs. Self-drives onto mechanics pit, technician drops low battery and puts in new battery pack, car’s good to go, plug up low battery. Faster than a gas station stop and eliminates the aging of batteries by using different batteries constantly with ineffective, aged units simply being taken out of circulation.

Great video. Do you also keep a running comparison of all the battery tech that's out there, so that we can gauge where this tech is compared to silicon, graphene, and other tech developments? It seems they are all neck and neck - leapfrogging with differences that include: maturity (concept/prototype/limited production/mass production), energy density, charging time, battery recharge life, etc.

The main problem here in Germany (mostly in big cities) is the space. Everything is so densely built, that many don't even get a parking spot near their own house. And we have so little charging stations around the city. In my area there is only one charging station that's around 1km away... So around a few hundred people per charging station. The day only has 24 hours. So realistically most charge around in the early morning before work or in the evening. So it's one charging station for hundreds of potential EVs divided over only a few hours each day.... Furthermore our energy infrastructure can't really handle more charging stations that would definitely be needed. It had to be all redone properly, but that would be wayyy too expensive

In your critique of batteries did you mention a lot of the stops at gas stations are eliminated due to the slow overnight charging at one's house. So you may be waiting an extra 15 min at the gas station to charge but one is not having to even stop at a gas station 2 to 3 times a month. This seems to actually be less waiting time overall at gas stations. But more importantly less distractions and waiting and prior planning of time.

If this video proves anything at all, it's that battery tech has so many areas that they can just keep improving on :) Fantastic tech, and very promising for a lot of industries.

It's amazing to see all this battery technology moving foward with new news every week of some innovation which is being made. In 5-10 years we will have amazing battery tech

Great Video Matt, it is fantastic to see so much R&D in battery Tech these days. Nothing focused R&D to pushed the development of a technology like Batteries. Might be a few years before we see this in production but its a brilliant step in the right direction. Thanks again for the Video.