Toshiba's new EV Battery promises 200 miles from 6 MINUTE charge

Toshiba’s new EV Battery promises 200 miles from 6 MINUTE charge

Toshiba has announced the development of a new battery technology for Electric Cars, promising a range of 200 miles from a six minute charge.

Improvements in battery technology for electric cars have been, at best, incremental in the last decade, despite the huge investments made in delivering new battery technology to make EVs a sensible option.

But on the horizon are many promising technologies – like Graphene – which promise a properly disruptive technology, and it seems certain Toyota has made big strides with its 600 mile range EV due in 2021.

Now, battery makers Toshiba are claiming a significant, if not quite disruptive, new battery technology which promise rapid charging possibilities.

The new batteries from Toshiba replace the normal lithium-titanium oxide anodes found on an EV battery with a new titanium-niobium oxide anodes, and the promise is significant.

Toshiba say that using the new batteries a typical 32kWh battery can be sufficiently charged in just six minutes to give a 200 mile range. Which is impressive.

Toshiba also say that degradation of the battery – a problem for fast-charged batteries – is just a 10 per cent loss after 5,000 charges, which equates to 14 years of daily charging, and that even at -10C it will take just 10 minutes for a 200 mile range charge.

Toshiba say they will start marketing the new battery in 2019 – before Toyota’s new battery arrives – but what they’re not saying is how expensive they are to produce.

With battery prices for electric cars falling in price rapidly, these new Toshiba batteries need to be sensibly priced to find a place in the market.

But if they are, you’ll be able to ‘Refuel’ an EV as quickly as you can an ICE. And then the game changes.