Huawei poised for big leap forward in battery charging tech

With several smartphones hitting the market recently with Quick Charge 2.0 technology for fast battery charging, a new baseline for performance will be established in the minds of consumers. This means buyers will be looking for the next major improvement and Huawei hopes to be there to meet the demand for the latest and greatest. Looking beyond Quick Charge 2.0, Huawei’s Watt Lab says they have developed technology that can charge lithium-ion batteries 10 times faster than the current standard.

Huawei says they used heteroatoms bonded to graphite in an anode to increase the charging speed of lithium-ion batteries. This was achieved with no decrease in energy density or battery life.

In a demonstration of the new technology, Huawei shows a 600 mAh battery charging to 68% capacity in only two minutes while a 3000 mAh battery was charged to 48% capacity in just 5 minutes.

Clearly we would all like to be able to charge our smartphones in mere minutes and then get through a day. However, Huawei is hoping Watt Lab’s work extends to other battery applications like electric vehicles and wearable devices.

source: Huawei

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