In connection with the Paris Motor Show, the Taiwan-based battery company Prologium has shown a so-called solid-state battery that promises miracles in terms of charging time.
Charging time may be less of a concern in the electric cars of the future. At least if Taiwan-based battery company Prologium is true to its word.
At the Paris Motor Show, the company showed a so-called solid-state battery, which is said to be able to charge for 300 kilometers of driving in five minutes. If you can wait a total of 8 minutes and 30 seconds, the battery must be charged to 80 percent.
The tests on which Prologium bases its ceilings are carried out by the normally recognized German laboratory TÜV Rheinland.
The secret behind – or in the battery, if you like – is the use of silicon instead of lithium. It should, among other things, make the battery pack itself 300 kilos lighter. In addition, the Prologium people say that they have achieved an energy density of just over 335 kilowatt-hours per kilo.
Even the best lithium batteries today do not exceed 240 watt-hours per hour at best. kilograms. The battery is not just an idea that came out of the blue, but instead the result of a close collaboration with the German car manufacturer Mercedes.
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Mercedes, however, has scrapped and cut back on several of its electric car plans. Allegedly, the chief executive Ola Källenius must have ordered the closure of several electric car platforms.
Instead, he has made no secret of the fact that right now Mercedes would rather spend the money on 'highly efficient hybrid engines'. More or less the same is happening at Volkswagen, where more than DKK 500 billion is being moved directly from the development of electric cars to the development of petrol and diesel cars.
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