Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Nissan's 10-Minute EV Charger?

This is a traffic stopper...FastCompany reports today (Nissan's 10-Minute Car Charger Could Change The Electric Vehicle Landscape) that Nissan is supposedly planning a ten minute electric vehicle charger.

Is this for real? Apparently yes, but it sounds like it's still in the development stages before it hits the consumer market. It's exciting though! Check this out:

"...apparently Nissan and Japan's Kansai University have figured out how to shave the charging time down to just 10 minutes by using a capacitor electrode made of tungsten oxide and vanadium oxide (instead of carbon, which is used in today's chargers) to improve power. According to the New York Daily News, the 10-minute battery charger doesn't have significant impact on voltage or battery storage capacity."


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