Company claims to harness AI for quicker electric-car DC fast charging

At CES earlier this month, GBatteries demonstrated that it could charge a 60-kwh battery pack, made up of off-the-shelf lithium-ion automotive cells, to half capacity in just 5 minutes, or to a full charge in 10 minutes. Further, the company is aiming, with a technology that employs AI elements, to boost charging speeds without accelerating degradation and rendering electric-vehicle battery packs useless. Such a technology could help lessen the effects of fast-charging battery packs in vehicles. The more often you fast-charge an electric-car battery pack--and the higher the charge rate--the higher the chances are that you'll do irreversible damage to the cells within, and decrease the cycle life of the battery and its effective capacity. DON'T MISS: Toyota and Panasonic to jointly make electric-car batteries, explore solid-state tech (Updated) The company's hardware and software solution together smartly speeds up or slows down charging momentarily, depending on conditions inside the battery.