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Charging fast and lasting long seemed impossible. A new AI trick says otherwise.

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EV battery charging technology has always had to find the right balance between charging speed and battery longevity. If the charging speed is too fast , it wears down the battery. If the charging is too slow, nobody is happy.

Researchers Meng Yuan from Victoria University of Wellington and Changfu Zou from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden may have cracked this long-standing problem using an AI technique called deep reinforcement learning, and the results are pretty encouraging.

Their study, published in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, introduces a new AI charging system that learns to charge a battery quickly while actively protecting its long-term health.

What’s different about this new AI-based charging system?

The system uses a machine learning method called TD3, which is a fancy way of saying the AI learns by trial and error across…