{"id":216828,"date":"2025-06-29T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-component-reduces-cost-supply-chain-constraints-for-fast-charging-ev-batteries"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:02:53","slug":"new-component-reduces-cost-supply-chain-constraints-for-fast-charging-ev-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-component-reduces-cost-supply-chain-constraints-for-fast-charging-ev-batteries","title":{"rendered":"New component reduces cost, supply chain constraints for fast-charging EV batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-component-reduces-cost-supply-chain-constraints-for-fast-charging-ev-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strengthening the competitiveness of the American transportation industry relies on developing domestically produced electric vehicle batteries that enable rapid charging and long-range performance. The energy density needed to extend driving distance can, however, come at the expense of charging rates and battery life.<\/p>\n<p>By integrating a new type of current collector, which is a key battery component, researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated how to manufacture a battery with both superior energy density and a lasting ability to handle extreme fast charging. This enables restoring at least 80% of battery energy in 10 minutes. By using less metal, particularly high-demand copper, the technology also relieves strain on U.S. supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis provides a significant savings on near-critical materials, because much less copper and aluminum are needed,\u201d said lead researcher Georgios Polyzos. \u201cAt the same time, this will greatly enhance the energy density achievable with a 10-minute charge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strengthening the competitiveness of the American transportation industry relies on developing domestically produced electric vehicle batteries that enable rapid charging and long-range performance. The energy density needed to extend driving distance can, however, come at the expense of charging rates and battery life. By integrating a new type of current collector, which is a key [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216828","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}