JFE Engineering Reveals Quick Electric Car Battery Charging Station [Quick Charge System Charges To 50% Power In 3 Minutes]

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JFE Engineering Corp has developed a new electric car charging system that provides a quick battery charge in a matter of minutes.  The JFE quick charge will give your electric car’s battery a 50% charge in just 3 minutes on the plug.

One significant hurdle of the impending electric car economy is the inability to quickly charge an electric car’s battery.  Electric cars and plug-in electric hybrids have different ranges of travel before their battery will run out of juice.  While a driver could just pull up to a gas station in their internal combustion car, this isn’t so easy with an electric.  Some have suggested battery swapping stations, and until this point the alternative has been a very long wait at a recharge station until your car is ready to hit the road again.  Compared to older methods of recharging, however, JFE Engineering Corp has produced a charging station that’ll give you 50% of a charge in just 3 minutes flat, a technology that could spread electric car infrastructure throughout our nation’s roadways.

The JFE Engineering quick charge system won’t come cheap, but does have its price advantages.  A single charging station will $63,000, which is still less than most of the competition, but could be a tough hurdle for a smaller gas station.  The system runs off of a traditional electric power source, which means that fueling stations will not need to invest in further infrastructure to power their system.  The main drawback to JFE’s quick charge is that it requires modifications to an electric car’s software and systems.  This means that JFE’s system is not standardized, which could present incompatibility issues for part of the world’s electric car fleet.