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Electric car battery charges in under five minutes in track test
The charging time is much quicker than even the fastest-charging batteries currently on the market.
It was achieved with a specially-built concept sports car on a test track in Bedford, and is part of industry-wide efforts to get electric vehicles (EVs) charging more quickly. “Developing technology that enables people to charge more quickly, which chimes with the time it currently takes to re-fuel a car – is really important," Paul Shearing, Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Oxford University, told the BBC. But Dr Edward Brightman, lecturer in chemical engineering at Strathclyde University, said that while rapid charging is useful for long journeys, the real barrier to electric vehicle take-up still lay in the supporting infrastructure.
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