Will charging electric cars ever be as fast as refuelling Petrol/Diesel/CNG?
Slow charging times are holding back potential EV customers, but emerging science says a fast-charging battery is possible.
Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining popularity fast, but some prospective buyers remain hesitant. One big reason is that charging EVs is slow. While drivers today are accustomed to filling their fuel tank in less than two-five minutes, EVs, depending on the size and specifications of the battery & Intake capacity restricted/ Limited on by OEMs, typically take at least 45-60 minutes to get 80 percent charged at the fastest charging stations out there in India.
Charging up
The batteries inside today’s EVs are composed of thousands of lithium-ion cells with the ability to store and release energy thousands of times. Each of those cells consists of two electrodes —a metal cathode and a graphite anode—separated by a liquid electrolyte. While the battery is charging, lithium ions flow through the liquid from the cathode to the anode, filling up spaces between the graphite layers.
At high charging speeds lithium batteries can overheat, causing them to degrade over time. More problematically, lithium can start to build up on the surface of the anode instead of entering it, a phenomenon known as lithium plating. Not only can that drastically reduce the battery’s capacity, but the lithium deposits also eventually form filament-like structures known as dendrites. Once they start forming, those dendrites can grow across the electrolyte, touch the cathode and create a short circuit, causing the battery to catch fire or explode.
“Obviously that’s not particularly good from a safety point of view,”
For Increasing Battery lifecycle while providing fast charging, all EV batteries have built-in charging speed limits, set by either the car’s on-board charger (OBC) or Off-Board
Like for AC charging: The limit on OBC is 3.3 & 6.6kW for cars like Nexon EV, Tiago EV, Hyundai Kona, MG ZS, and few luxury EV cars provide OBC of 11 & 22kW options available.
For DC Charging intake capacity is between 18kW to 50kW based on the EV make & model in India
Exactly how fast a battery will recharge in the real world depends not only on the charger or how many kilowatts of power the battery was designed to accept, but the battery’s size, how charged it is, and even the weather.
Social speed limits
Even if EV batteries that can charge in less than 10-15 minutes are technically possible, it’s not clear that ultra-fast charging will ever be practical. At 400 volts and higher, today’s fast charging stations already draw much more power from the electric grid than the 240-volt outlets many EV owners use at home. If all Indian were driving EVs and everyone expected ever-faster charging to be available all the time, that could place some serious strain on the grid.
Breaking the Thought barrier
We at @E-Fill Electric are building more efficient and effective EV charger ranging from 3.3kW & 60kW keeping the current and future need in mind of OEMs and our CPOs/Franchise partners. Our EV charger offers dynamic load balancing and currently working/ optimizing on efficient grid utilization by EV charger and CMS, Which will result in stable grid availability for faster growth of Public Fast DC EV Charger and build confidence in customer for choosing EVs over ICEs.
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At EFEV Charging Solutions Pvt. Ltd., also known as E-Fill Electric, we provide an EV Ecosystem & a one-stop solution for EV charging stations with in-house developed EV Chargers, Mobile App & CMS. We are the electric vehicle charger manufacturers in India. We have a wide range of Charging solutions from 3.3kW to 60kW (AC & DC EV Chargers) and provide EV charger Franchise. Our business model is planned to take everyone together at one platform – EV Owners, Cab Fleets, Commercial Parking spaces, Malls, Multiplexes, Individual Businesses/CPOs etc.
The solution to Software related challenges finding the availability of the charging slot is considered the most important task so to solve this issue it is very helpful to develop software that makes life easier and saves time. We have a solution for this with our E.FILL Electric application to locate the nearest chargers.
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