Honda's Super-Cool Future EVs Could Take Just 15 Minutes To Charge
Electric vehicles face many challenges if they’re replace good old-fashioned internal combustion-engined cars, and the time taken to charge is one of the biggest. About half an hour for an 80 per cent charge is usually about as fast as it gets, but Honda will cutting that time down significantly by 2022.
Nikkei Asian Review reports that Honda will develop a new kind of high-capacity battery that can cope with ultra-fast charging. 15 minutes will be all it takes for a full charge, allowing for a range of around 150 miles.
The caveat is the batteries will require a much more serious fast charger to juice them up. A 350kW system would be needed, where most existing chargers - Tesla’s superchargers included - tend to manage more like 150kW. Thankfully, such a thing is on the way - a join venture between Audi, BMW, Ford and others will result in a network beefier chargers being rolled out across Europe by 2020.
Honda’s range of super-cool EVs will arrive before the battery tech does, with a production version of the Urban EV (pictured above) set to appear in 2019. The fancier cells will no doubt be making their way into the cars quickly.
In the meantime, we’re just hoping that Honda will put the Sports EV into production, which at this stage is looking unlikely…
Source: Nikkei Asian Review via Auto Express
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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It’s just that interior. They did all the stuff they knew we’d like on the outside then hired apple to make the interior. It’s aweful. Bring on the cool EVs but next please.
Be happy there are windows…
They just need to get rid of those displays on the outside (what were they even thinking?) and they’re onto something.
The 2nd ev i actually like
So, you say that they’re going to make a good looking small EV for the city? Sounds good, would make quite a lot of sense.
BMW, take notes!
VTec really kicked in.. Honda will most probably rename it something like Hyper Drive..
WHAT
YEYEYEYEYEYEYEYYEYEYEEUEYEUEUEUEURU. How much will it be?
Nice design, all it needs is someone to swar an F22c, B18 or a K20 motor in and have a blast.
Hahaha. The Tesla will only take 1 minute. Japanese: 0 Americans: 1.
Looks like a modern Fiat 126p.