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Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds
Zothecula (1870348) writes "At Microsoft's Think Next symposium in Tel Aviv, Israeli startup StoreDot has demonstrated the prototype of a nanodot-based smartphone battery it claims can fully charge in just under 30 seconds. With the company having plans for mass production, this technology could change the way we interact with portable electronics, and perhaps even help realize the dream of a fast-charging electric car."
I hear consumer electronics have this funny way of getting smaller (and cheaper) as time goes by. But that's just a rumor.
A Tesla S has an 85kWh battery. To charge that in 30 seconds requires 10,200,000 watts of power - approximately the full electrical service to a decent size skyscraper. That's 42,500 amps at 240V, the full maximum power available to over 212 modern homes and a totally impractical amount of current to handle with any reasonable electrical equipment. So while fast-charging batteries are great and a necessary step forward in technology, the universal adoption of electric cars will require not just upgrading our infrastructure, but a complete rethinking and redevelopment of the electrical grid using not-yet-imagined technologies.
I am a geek attorney, but not your geek attorney unless you've already retained me. This is not legal advice.
Going to need superconducting charge cables. My mom sure isn't going to be wrestling 00 gauge charge cables into a connector.
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No problem, we'll just 3D print em'. 3D printing will solve all our problems.
For that matter, why don't we just 3D print a fully charged battery?