{"id":130467,"date":"2021-11-12T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/cooler-means-quicker-how-ev-fast-charging-stops-might-get-shorter-without-bulkier-cables"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:23:12","slug":"cooler-means-quicker-how-ev-fast-charging-stops-might-get-shorter-without-bulkier-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/cooler-means-quicker-how-ev-fast-charging-stops-might-get-shorter-without-bulkier-cables","title":{"rendered":"Cooler means quicker: How EV fast-charging stops might get shorter without bulkier cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cooler-means-quicker-how-ev-fast-charging-stops-might-get-shorter-without-bulkier-cables2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford and Purdue University researchers have developed a new charging cable the automaker claims could allow future EVs to recharge in as little time as a gasoline fill-up.<\/p>\n<p>The patent-pending design uses a new cooling method that harnesses the phase change of coolant from liquid to vapor, Ford said in a press release. Liquid-cooled charging cables aren\u2019t new, but this version can extract more heat, the automaker claims.<\/p>\n<p>A focus on cooling is key to increasing charging speeds. Quicker charging requires more current to travel through a cable, which in turn generates more heat, which needs to be eliminated to keep components functioning, Michael Degner, senior technical leader, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford and Purdue University researchers have developed a new charging cable the automaker claims could allow future EVs to recharge in as little time as a gasoline fill-up. The patent-pending design uses a new cooling method that harnesses the phase change of coolant from liquid to vapor, Ford said in a press release. Liquid-cooled charging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}