The MIT Electric Vehicle Team is developing an electric car that can be recharged in about 10 minutes, according to an IDG Wire Service report running in PC World.
For this project, which is based on the body of a 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid, the team plans to use lithium iron-phosphate cell batteries from A123Systems “because they have very low internal resistance and they’ve also been on the market for about three years,” Gogoana said. The team’s press materials added that, “electrochemistry [of the batteries] is less volatile than that of other types of lithium-ion cells, which makes these batteries desirable in applications where crash safety is a high priority.”
The EVT’s blog has some in-depth posts, with photos, of the creation of the car.
After the jump, watch video of the EVT’s solar car, which drove cross country in June, but perhaps more impressively, rolled up Broadway in Southie as part of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Via Engadget.
Posted by Brendan Lynch
Tags: electric cars, MIT, MIT Electric Vehicle Team, solar cars, Southie, St. Patrick's Day
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