Extreme fast charging battery maker StoreDot said it is on track to deliver its 100in5 silicon-dominant extreme fast charging batteries to electric vehicle (EV) OEMs by next year. They will deliver 160km (100 miles) of range after five minutes’ charging.
The company claimed it will enable vehicle manufacturers to include smaller battery packs.
Smaller packs with XFC should translate into improved EV specifications including better car efficiency, increased utilisation of regenerative braking, reduced carbon footprint and lower costs, the Israeli company said.
OEMs will be able to optimise a vehicle’s weight and cost, rather than pushing for ever-greater range and battery size.
Downsizing from an 80 kWh to a 50 kWh battery pack could save approximately 200kg from the EV’s weight, it said. The claim is that could reduce the build cost of the car by $4,500, depending on metal cost fluctuations and energy density improvements.
Dr Doron Myersdorf, StoreDot CEO, said: “Up until recently OEMs were increasing the size of battery packs in their EVs because a proportion of drivers were transitioning from gas to electric for the first time with the known ‘range anxiety’ in their minds. Those drivers, and anyone who is an EV advocate now realise that range anxiety is no longer the most pressing issue – and won’t even be an issue at all once public charging infrastructure around the world is properly in place.”
StoreDot’s XFC battery cells are being tested by more than 15 automotive manufacturers, it said.