This e-bike battery can charge in 10 minutes—and won’t catch on fire

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Adele Peters

MARCH 20, 2024

Your next e-bike or robot vacuum might not have a lithium-ion battery. The ubiquitous batteries have problems—they’re slow to charge, wear out quickly, and sometimes lead to catastrophic fires. But new technology is making it easier for manufacturers to switch to better batteries.

A startup called Zapbatt designed a “battery operating system” that acts like a universal adapter for alternative batteries—beginning with a lithium titanium oxide battery from Toshiba that previously has only been used by the military and in industry (for example, in autonomous guided vehicles that are used to transport goods in warehouses).

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