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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I mean if it looks this cute and is this convenient, count me in I’m interested
Agreed, but what I’m really interested in is that gorgeous EV sport coupe concept Honda revealed as well
It looks like an awesome commuting car
Would be a great run around for mundane tasks like shopping. I heard Jaguar are in that group investing in chargers. Heard that Jaguar Ford and BMW would open a battery factory together …makes sense really, less cost.
And during this time I’m still looking forward to see solar panels on the roof
Honestly this stuff is cool! I would take the Urban EV or the Sports EV. I thought that EV’s are dumb but Honda proved it! I agree with you Matt, these EVs are Super-Cool!
meanwhile my phone takes 3 hours to charge
Honestly, Honda make the EV future look so much brighter. First the amazing design, now the convenience. I hope their plans work out as promised!
Agreed!
The “joint venture” link shows an electric Porsche?
As long as I can get it with those rims!
That is the first ‘normal’ EV that people would actually want to buy I think
People do buy EVs for you information
It looks like it wants to kill me whilst being cute at the same time