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In Watford the council has confirmed seven more electric vehicle charging points are going to be added over the next few weeks.
The council in Watford Borough are encouraging people to switch from petrol and diesel cars to electric ones. This will be better for the environment which is the reason they are advocates for it. New charging points for the vehicles are being installed, to provide additional green energy in Watford.
The locations of these new 7kW fast EV chargers are Stamford Road, Sutton Road, Granville Road, Sotheron Road, Mildred Avenue and Grosvenor Road. Each of these sites will have charging for up to two cars.
This amazing addition has been funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and Electric Blue along with the borough council. This means that users will be able to charge their cars for 32p per kilowatt hour using the Electric Blue app, and they can top up for a max of four hours, or take a full charge if they leave it over night to charge.
This comes just after the council have installed five on-street EV charging points in 2020 as a part of their commitment to reduce the carbon footprint of Watford. Their aim is to become net zero carbon by 2030. Currently, Victoria Road, Bradshaw Road, Essex Road, Durban Road East and Shaftesbury Road all feature charging facilities. There is also EV charging in Cassiobury Park and Watford Business Park. The Mayor of Watford mentioned that as the amount of electric cars in their area increases they needed to be ready for this. The council has also mentioned that work is being done with Ringway to install 15 lamp column chargers. More information, such as locations, will be given soon!
New electric car batteries that will charge up in just five minutes!
Recent breakthroughs in the electric car charging industry could lead to the first ever mass produced batteries that will charge your electric car just as quickly as filling a car with petrol or diesel would take!
American researchers have discovered one way of charging electric vehicle batteries in only ten minutes. Even more impressive than this huge discovery, a company in China has managed to halve this time, to five minutes! At the moment the fastest UK 150kw chargers take about thirty minutes to charge the batteries of these same types of models, such as the Porsche Taycan.
At Pennsylvania State University, scientists have discovered that if they heat lithium iron phosphate batteries to 60 degrees centigrade, and keep them this hot, then their lithium ions will move faster; while avoiding the damage to the battery that is usually caused by this level of heat.
The new batteries will provide a car that has a range of 250 miles, and they can be recharged up to 2500 times without the battery starting to become damaged. The batteries discussed earlier, that can be charged in just five minutes, were produced in a factory in China. The lithium ion batteries were created in Israel, by company StoreDot, and produced by a company called Eve Energy.
Though a faster charger than what is currently available is needed to recharge the batteries in only five minutes, StoreDot do believe that the technology to make them charge in five minutes will be accessible in 2025. Using the current electric vehicle charging models, a car can be charged in five minutes to allow 100 miles. It is claimed that the batteries will keep 80% of their original capacity even after 1000 fast charges.
The electric vehicle batteries that are currently available use graphite to store energy, in the StoreDot battery this has been changed by semiconductor nanoparticles made from germanium. Although, similarly to many other companies around the world, they are planning to switch to silicon electrodes in the future as this is less costly.
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