{"id":221960,"date":"2025-09-16T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/lithium-metal-batteries-can-charge-in-12-minutes-for-an-800km-drive"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:06:04","slug":"lithium-metal-batteries-can-charge-in-12-minutes-for-an-800km-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/lithium-metal-batteries-can-charge-in-12-minutes-for-an-800km-drive","title":{"rendered":"Lithium-metal batteries can charge in 12 minutes for an 800km drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lithium-metal-batteries-can-charge-in-12-minutes-for-an-800km-drive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Korean researchers have ushered in a new era for electric vehicle (EV) battery technology by solving the long-standing dendrite problem in lithium-metal batteries. While conventional lithium-ion batteries are limited to a maximum range of 600 km, the new battery can achieve a range of 800 km on a single charge, a lifespan of over 300,000 km, and a super-fast charging time of just 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A research team from the Frontier Research Laboratory (FRL), a joint project between Professor Hee Tak Kim from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and LG Energy Solution, has developed a \u201ccohesion-inhibiting new liquid electrolyte\u201d original technology that can dramatically increase the performance of lithium-metal batteries. Their paper is published in Nature Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-metal batteries replace the graphite anode, a key component of lithium-ion batteries, with lithium metal. However, lithium metal has a technical challenge known as dendrite, which makes it difficult to secure the battery\u2019s lifespan and stability. Dendrites are tree-like lithium crystals that form on the anode surface during battery charging, negatively affecting battery performance and stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korean researchers have ushered in a new era for electric vehicle (EV) battery technology by solving the long-standing dendrite problem in lithium-metal batteries. While conventional lithium-ion batteries are limited to a maximum range of 600 km, the new battery can achieve a range of 800 km on a single charge, a lifespan of over 300,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221960","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}