StoreDot
does it again, adding a fast-charging electric-vehicle battery to its coming
instant-charge smartphone battery.
Abigail
Klein Leichman, Israel21C
StoreDot made
headlines when it unveiled its prototype instant phone battery
charger at last year’s Microsoft ThinkNext exhibition in Tel Aviv. The
FlashBattery/FlashCharger unit could be available on smartphones by the end of
this year.
In another
bombshell, the Israeli company announced at yesterday’s 2015 ThinkNext that it
intends to demonstrate its five-minute ultra-fast-charge car battery at this
time next year.
This
groundbreaking technology would enable drivers to charge their car
batteries in less time than StoreDot needs to explain how it works.
StoreDot
specializes in cost-effective, environmentally friendly nanotechnologies using
organic materials that increase electrode capacitance and electrolyte
performance. This is the recipe for making batteries that can be fully charged
in minutes rather than hours.
While
competitors in the electric-vehicle space seek to increase mileage per battery
charge, StoreDot is focusing on dramatically reducing charging time.
“This is
part of our larger initiative to commercialize a proprietary game-changing
technology of fast-charging batteries that would transform the lives of
smartphone users as well as drivers,” said StoreDot CEO Doron Myersdorf.
The
privately owned StoreDot, incorporated in Israel in 2012, also announced the
opening of its new facility in Herzliya, housing an organic chemistry lab,
battery material development lab and R&D battery production line.