One of the problems with electric cars will remain in 2024: charging the battery simply takes a long time. ProLogium thinks it has a solution for this: a groundbreaking battery that can charge almost 300 kilometers in just five minutes.
The ProLogium battery is groundbreaking for several reasons. First of all, it is about the amount of watt-hours that fit into the battery per kilogram. Traditional batteries (lithium-ion) typically achieve 300 watt-hours per kilogram, but the company’s new battery reaches 321 watt-hours per kilogram.
ProLogium itself says that this is just the beginning and aims to improve performance by 77 percent by the end of 2024. This could ensure that electric cars in the future have lighter batteries that do not sacrifice range for faster charging options. But it doesn’t stop there either.
ProLogium fixes electric cars in more areas
Of course, faster battery charging is a dream for electric car owners and fixes a problem they face every day, but it’s not even the most impressive thing ProLogium shows. The battery that the company has developed is modular.
This ensures that the battery consists of different parts, which makes an electric car a lot more sustainable. For example, as soon as part of the battery no longer works, the entire battery does not need to be replaced.
Electric cars now have dozens of ‘most efficient batteries ever’
ProLogium’s technology is promising, but does not stand alone. Over the past year we have found numerous ‘solutions’ to produce the most efficient battery ever. Solid-state batteries, batteries with graphene to better conduct heat, lithium iron phosphate batteries, sodium-ion batteries: they are all included.
There are plenty of alternatives to the lithium-ion batteries we use today, but we still can’t find them in electric cars. In all cases, this mainly has to do with scale and the production costs involved. Batteries are very expensive to produce and because the innovations have usually only been discovered recently, little can be said about their reliability.
In other words, manufacturers are actually looking at improvements in electric car batteries, but are playing it safe at the moment. Until an alternative is found that is reliable and financially attractive enough to roll it out on a large scale.
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Source: www.bright.nl
