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This electric car battery takes less than 5 minutes to charge
A British startup may have found the answer to one of the frustrations of driving an electric car — waiting around for the battery to charge.
“Our extensive research here in the UK and US has unlocked a novel battery technology that is ready and scalable right now,” Nyobolt’s co-founder and CEO, Sai Shivareddy, said in a statement Friday. Nyobolt’s technology builds on a decade of research led by University of Cambridge battery scientist Clare Grey and Cambridge-educated Shivareddy, the company said.Key to itsbatteries’ ability to be charged super-fast without a big impact on their longevity is a design that means they generate less heat. Jack Evans, a motoring specialist at Blackball Media, welcomed the news about Nyobolt’s battery, which was tested on a track Thursday using a 350kW DC ultra-rapid charger of the kind that ishard to find on UK roads.
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