In recent years the prices of electric scooters have skyrocketed: cities as big as Rome or Paris already see 10.000 to 20.000 vehicles running around everywhere, and they all run out too early.
Battery range and charging times are the two biggest current issues for electric vehicles: StoreDot is ready to solve one of the two.
The company presented its fast charging technology, capable of taking an electric scooter from 0 to 100% in just 5 minutes.
“This is proof that we can break down this wall: what was once considered impossible is now possible,” announces enthusiastically Doron Myersdorf, CEO of StoreDot.
It will take a year and a half for mass production. The new batteries they will be on sale not before 2021: in the meantime StoreDot is concentrating its efforts on equipping different devices with its technologies, from mobile phones "ready in 5 minutes" to complete electric cars.
The next target is already planned: in the autumn the company will supply 480km of autonomy ad an electric Mercedes in 5 minutes.
What's the secret?
StoreDots are thinner than regular lithium-ion batteries, contain less lithium, more Germanic and some preservative agents that counteract its decay.
On the cost it is really difficult to pronounce: try putting a price on something that didn't exist before, and that has a huge impact in terms of value for both users than for the planet. It certainly won't cost little, and considering the fact that on Amazon it is already possible to find some electric scooters under €800, we could find ourselves faced with vehicles that incorporate this technology and which cost between double and four times as much (and I can't imagine those for cars).
Obviously prices will drop as diffusion increases, and it won't go away much earlier that these batteries are the norm everywhere: because a scooter with 240km of autonomy that recharges in 5 minutes can go really everywhere.
