Purdue University Mechanical Engineering | Fast electric car charging requires cooler cables @PurdueME | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Full story: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2021/Q4/electric-vehicles-could-fully-recharge-in-under-5-minutes-with-new-charging-station-cable-design.html
Electric vehicles can only charge so fast, because the high current of the charging cable creates too much heat. Issam Mudawar has teamed up with Ford Motor Company to design a charging cable that can handle four times as much current, potentially charging a vehicle in under 5 minutes.
Read the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121176
Issam Mudawar's lab: https://engineering.purdue.edu/mudawar/
Mechanical Engineering: https://purdue.edu/ME
Full story: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2021/Q4/electric-vehicles-could-fully-recharge-in-under-5-minutes-with-new-charging-station-cable-design.html
Electric vehicles can only charge so fast, because the high current of the charging cable creates too much heat. Issam Mudawar has teamed up with Ford Motor Company to design a charging cable that can handle four times as much current, potentially charging a vehicle in under 5 minutes.
Read the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121176
Issam Mudawar's lab: https://engineering.purdue.edu/mudawar/
Mechanical Engineering: https://purdue.edu/ME
