On the Journal of Nuclear Physics yesterday, Andrea Rossi was asked about whether the E-Cat continuously charging an EV battery could have the effect of degrading the lifespan of that battery. Steven Karels, who asked the question, stated that supercharging, or fast charging an EV battery is more damaging to a battery over time than slower charging from a home charger.
Here is Rossi’s response:
Steven Nicholes Karels:
This issue has been resolved with our interfacing system: you made a good point, and this is one of the reasons of how difficult has been to power an EV with the Ecat without damaging the original system. There have been many other issues, at the base of the big troubles we had one year ago, that generated the delay of the test for one year. Among other issues, the Ecat powering the EV and its interface system, supplied with a very complex circuitry, had to be robustly shielded.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
So this makes me wonder whether perhaps the problem that caused the year-long delay of the EV test was not a problem with the E-Cat itself, but some adverse effect that the E-Cat had on the battery. Rossi has explained that they have a system of capacitors in place between the E-Cat and the EV battery, which is maybe the part of the shielding that Rossi is referring to here.
