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Samsung Announces Electric Vehicle Battery Cell Enabling 310 Mile Range on a 20 Minute Charge

posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @02:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the cars-start-on-fire-all-the-time-anyway dept.

takyon writes:

Samsung has announced a new battery cell for electric vehicles that could enable 20 minute fast charging. The company plans to get that time down to 5 to 10 minutes:

Samsung's SDI battery subsidiary announced a new battery cell designed for use in electric vehicles that offers improved density to manage a max range of up to 372 miles on a full charge, with a quick charge capacity that will help it regain 310 miles or so of charge on just 20 minutes of charging. Unveiled at the North American International Auto Show for the first time, the new battery tech come with a 10 percent decrease in the number of units and weight required vs. current production battery units made by Samsung SDI.

Mass production isn't set to begin until 2021, but the tech should arrive in time to supply the first crop of autonomous cars, which are also targeting street dates sometime within that year from a range of manufacturers. EV and self-driving are tied closely to one another, since both are crucial components for operating the kind of on-demand ride-sharing fleets planned by Ford, among others.

Also at Engadget. Press release at Business Wire.

Samsung's SDI division is the same company that made the batteries used in the Galaxy Note 7 as well as the upcoming Galaxy S8. Samsung will reportedly reveal the cause of the Galaxy Note 7 overheating issues later this month, but the batteries are not expected to be the culprit.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:40PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:40PM (#452530) Homepage
    As someone who used to get a bus from the town centre bus-station to a business park every day, all I can say is that my nose and my lungs are happier than my ears. Fortunately, the town started using LPG busses, and started excluding cars from more and more of town, but in a highly built up old town area, even a moderate amount of traffic makes the air stink, and the 500-year-old buildings turn black.
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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:23PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:23PM (#452674) Journal

    > the 500-year-old buildings turn black.

    Also good. I remember the Dom in Cologne was black from the same cause, no matter how much they scrubbed and sandblasted it. People from the Age of Coal would marvel at our air quality today, and I suspect we'll react the same way after the EV revolution has run its course.

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