Every Uber driver who has sat at a rapid charger watching the percentage tick up knows the quiet arithmetic of the situation. Fast charging works. It also, bit by bit, destroys the battery. That trade-off has been treated as basically unavoidable for as long as electric vehicles have existed, a physical constraint baked into the chemistry of lithium-ion cells. A study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden now suggests otherwise. Using…
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