{"id":10706,"date":"2022-03-25T09:41:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1383164"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:41:15","slug":"quantum-charging-ev-batteries-could-juice-you-car-faster-than-pumping-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=10706","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Quantum charging\u2019 EV batteries could juice you car faster than pumping gas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When it comes to EV<\/a> adoption, a major issue people complain about is slow charging times \u2014 especially compared to pumping stinky gas.<\/p>\n

To solve the charging time conundrum, a team of scientists from the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems at IBS<\/a> has turned to the realm of quantum physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The team drew inspiration from a 2012 study<\/a>, which proposed a \u201cquantum battery concept,\u201d meaning a quantum mechanical system that acts as an energy storage device.<\/p>\n

According to the 2021 study and numerous others that followed (for instance, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>), thanks to quantum resources<\/a>, quantum batteries could offer multiple advantages over their conventional counterparts.<\/p>\n

Among the intriguing benefits is the potential to charge at a vastly faster rate.<\/p>\n

The source of this quantum speedup lies in the use of \u201centanglement operations<\/a>,\u201d in which the battery cells are charged collectively as a whole. In contrast, conventional battery<\/a> cells are charged in parallel and independently of each other, slowing down the entire process.<\/p>\n

The benefit of this collective charging is measured by a ratio called \u201cquantum charging advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IBS research team sought to discover how much the charging speed can be increased.<\/p>\n

Conducting a series of theoretical experiments, the scientists found that collective charging, also known as \u201cglobal operations protocol,\u201d could achieve quadratic scaling in charging speed.<\/p>\n

This means that as quantum batteries increase in size, charging time becomes faster \u2014 unlike conventional batteries, where the higher the number of battery cells, the longer the charging time.<\/p>\n

To put it in numbers, if we go from one battery cell in an EV to 10 cells, the charging speed increases by a factor of four, and if we go from one to 10 cells, the charging speed increases by a factor of 100.<\/p>\n

According to the researchers, for a typical EV battery of 200 cells, quantum charging may lead to charging speeds 200 times faster than traditional batteries.<\/p>\n

Based on these estimations, charging an EV at home would drop from 10 hours to three minutes<\/em>. And at high-speed stations, charging times would drop from half an hour to mere seconds<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, as ground-breaking as this sounds, the researchers caution that there are still many questions to be answered, and that quantum technologies need years of research before they can be introduced as a commercial green energy alternative.<\/p>\n

You can find the study here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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