{"id":148024,"date":"2022-10-12T13:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/battery-tech-breakthrough-paves-way-for-mass-adoption-of-affordable-electric-car"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:25:29","slug":"battery-tech-breakthrough-paves-way-for-mass-adoption-of-affordable-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/battery-tech-breakthrough-paves-way-for-mass-adoption-of-affordable-electric-car","title":{"rendered":"Battery tech breakthrough paves way for mass adoption of affordable electric car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/battery-tech-breakthrough-paves-way-for-mass-adoption-of-affordable-electric-car.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today (Oct. 12) in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need for smaller, faster-charging batteries is greater than ever,\u201d said Chao-Yang Wang, the William E. Diefenderfer Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State and lead author on the study. \u201cThere are simply not enough batteries and critical raw materials, especially those produced domestically, to meet anticipated demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August, California\u2019s Air Resources Board passed an extensive plan to restrict and ultimately ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars within the state. By 2035, the largest auto market in the United States will effectively retire the internal combustion engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today (Oct. 12) in the journal Nature. \u201cThe need for smaller, faster-charging batteries is greater than ever,\u201d said Chao-Yang [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148024","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}