EV battery maker StoreDot says its silicon-dominant XFC battery cells didn’t degrade after 1,000 consecutive extreme fast charging cycles.
StoreDot ran an extended set of charging profile tests in which XFC was applied from 10-80% of the charge in 10 minutes, with the remaining charging cycle – from 0-10% and 80-100% – performed with slower 1C charging. At the same time, the silicon battery cells were also tested for full slow-charging cycles from 0-100%, and those also achieved a similar charging cycle performance.
Despite each cycle applying XFC for 70% of the charge, the cells demonstrated no additional degradation – a result that’s on a par with cells that were slow charged from 0-100% at the common use case of levels 1 or 2 charging.
Dr. Doron Myersdorf, StoreDot CEO, said:
The tests safely delivered the charging speed that consumers…