Engineering students at MIT are remarkable to say the least.  They have achieved many things, an EV that can recharge in 10 minutes is just the latest in a long line of accolades.  They call it the elEVen, it’s a modified Mercury Milan Hybrid.  The gasoline components have been removed to make the vehicle purely electric.

When they complete their project it will boast a top speed of over 100 mph and have a range of around 200 miles, twice that of Nissan’s EV.  So how does an EV with a range of 200 miles charge in 10 minutes?  It’s all in the batteries.  The vehicle is run on lithium iron-phosphate batteries that have a quick charging cycle.  But since the technology for the batteries is so new it will probably drive the costs of the car past $80,000 – not exactly in everyone’s price range.

Still, as battery technology improves and costs come down this projects shows us that we can go all electric with our cars and not have to spend an exorbitant amount of time charging them.  I probably spent 5 minutes at the gas station anyways just getting gas and paying for it.  It wouldn’t that inconvenient to spend twice as long to use no gas.