Hey guys, I don’t understand enough about electronics to answer this, but if my electricity at home is able to power a washing machine.
Should it not be possible to have like a super battery that goes 100% instant, and then release normal current to the phone until it’s charged? More like an instant power bank?
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It can be done but it would likely result in something expensive and not useful. The battery has to provide several key functions, it has to store energy, it has to convert (usually chemical energy) to electrical energy and it has to do this in reverse when charging.
On top of that it needs to have several characteristics, reasonably small lightweight, safe, reliable, long lasting, cost effective and sufficiently energy dense.
Putting all these characteristics into a single product isn’t easy. The first problem with “instant” phone charge is safety. Anything that can take in energy quickly also puts out energy quickly. And this results in heat and rather fiery and explosive characteristics. If more safety devices were incorporated (shielding, armor plating, safety circuits etc) it becomes a very expensive and heavy/bulky product.
This is why EV batteries have to be operated with all these things built in to handle the energy density and power.
It can be done but it would likely result in something expensive and not useful. The battery has to provide several key functions, it has to store energy, it has to convert (usually chemical energy) to electrical energy and it has to do this in reverse when charging.
On top of that it needs to have several characteristics, reasonably small lightweight, safe, reliable, long lasting, cost effective and sufficiently energy dense.
Putting all these characteristics into a single product isn’t easy. The first problem with “instant” phone charge is safety. Anything that can take in energy quickly also puts out energy quickly. And this results in heat and rather fiery and explosive characteristics. If more safety devices were incorporated (shielding, armor plating, safety circuits etc) it becomes a very expensive and heavy/bulky product.
This is why EV batteries have to be operated with all these things built in to handle the energy density and power.
Batteries and other charging electronics are not 100% efficient, some of the energy becomes heat. This is why the phone gets hit when you charge them. So if you increase the charge current the result will be they get overheated.
There is another limiting factor too but heat is a major one.
A washing machine is not instantly changed, it uses electricity on demand. A phone can do that too, you just do not what to have them always plugged in.
Batteries and other charging electronics are not 100% efficient, some of the energy becomes heat. This is why the phone gets hit when you charge them. So if you increase the charge current the result will be they get overheated.
There is another limiting factor too but heat is a major one.
A washing machine is not instantly changed, it uses electricity on demand. A phone can do that too, you just do not what to have them always plugged in.
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