‘Game-changing’ new battery for electric cars charges in 3 minutes and lasts for 20 YEARS – more than twice as long as current EV batteries

Daily Mail Co UK

By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE 

PUBLISHED: 07:29 EDT, 15 September 2022 | UPDATED: 07:45 EDT, 15 September 2022

A ‘game-changing’ new battery for electric vehicles (EVs) that charges in three minutes and lasts for 20 years could soon be coming to new cars.

Adden Energy, a start-up based in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been granted a licence and $5.15 million in funding to build the battery design at scale to fit in EVs. 

The battery, developed by Harvard scientists, is lithium metal, rather than lithium ion found in EVs that are already on the market. 

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