{"id":181328,"date":"2024-01-24T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/fast-charging-lithium-battery-seeks-to-eliminate-range-anxiety"},"modified":"2024-01-24T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:22:56","slug":"fast-charging-lithium-battery-seeks-to-eliminate-range-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/fast-charging-lithium-battery-seeks-to-eliminate-range-anxiety","title":{"rendered":"Fast-charging lithium battery seeks to eliminate \u2018range anxiety\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fast-charging-lithium-battery-seeks-to-eliminate-range-anxiety.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team in Cornell Engineering created a new lithium battery that can charge in under five minutes \u2013 faster than any such battery on the market \u2013 while maintaining stable performance over extended cycles of charging and discharging.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough could alleviate \u201crange anxiety\u201d among drivers who worry electric vehicles cannot travel long distances without a time-consuming recharge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRange anxiety is a greater barrier to electrification in transportation than any of the other barriers, like cost and capability of batteries, and we have identified a pathway to eliminate it using rational electrode designs,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.cornell.edu\/faculty-directory\/lynden-archer\">Lynden Archer<\/a>, Cornell\u2019s James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering and dean of Cornell Engineering, who oversaw the project. \u201cIf you can charge an EV battery in five minutes, I mean, gosh, you don\u2019t need to have a battery that\u2019s big enough for a 300-mile range. You can settle for less, which could reduce the cost of EVs, enabling wider adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team in Cornell Engineering created a new lithium battery that can charge in under five minutes \u2013 faster than any such battery on the market \u2013 while maintaining stable performance over extended cycles of charging and discharging. The breakthrough could alleviate \u201crange anxiety\u201d among drivers who worry electric vehicles cannot travel long distances without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181328","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}