With a touch of Elise
Does being able to charge the battery of an electric car in just over 5 minutes sound like music to your ears? Then keep a close eye on the creative minds and brains behind this new EV. The battery pack of this new electric concept car can be fully charged in six minutes.
Do you still think the time it takes to charge an electric car is one of the biggest obstacles in fully electrifying your fleet? No worries. At least, not if it’s up to the English companies Callum and Nyobolt. Callum, the company of Jaguar and Aston Martin designer Ian Callum, and battery developer Nyobolt present an electric study model that already has a full battery pack after 6 minutes of charging: the Nyobolt EV.
Although Callum is best known as a design house, it is more than that. Callum also has a development department and it is mainly that part of Callum that has been involved with the Nyobolt EV. But who designed it then? None other than Julian Thomson, the same man responsible for the design of the first generation Lotus Elise. The Nyobolt EV clearly shows that and Callum and Nyobolt openly admit that the design of the electric concept car is strongly inspired by that of the lightweight English two-seater.
According to Thomson, the electric Nyobolt EV is an improved Elise that is 10 centimeters wider and 15 centimeters longer than the original. The shoulder line of the Nyobolt EV is higher than that of the Elise and the car has new LED headlights and taillights. The EV does not have regular side mirrors. Instead, the Nyobolt EV has cameras mounted on sticks.
And that battery? That is a 35-kWh model that, according to Nyobolt, is not only smaller and lighter than a regular battery pack of the same size, but can also be charged considerably faster. According to its creators, the lithium-ion package can be fully charged with power in just 6 minutes, without the need for special charging hardware. The Nyobolt EV can travel up to 250 kilometers on a full battery. According to Nyobolt, the battery pack has successfully completed 2,000 charge cycles. Early next year, the piece of battery technology should go into production on a larger scale.
There are no concrete production plans yet, but don’t be surprised if you hear more about his technique in the future.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl