Casablanca - Moroccan scientist and engineer Rachid Yazami has invented lithium batteries that take only 10 minutes to charge an electric car, breaking the world record for recharge speed of 20 minutes.

Speaking this past Tuesday at the Digital Energy Forum in Casablanca, Yazami said that his new batteries recharge three times faster than Tesla’s, which take one hour - a previously unattainable record - to fully recharge an electric car.

According to the Moroccan scientist, the work in the field of energy will be carried out in various domains in the future, beginning with the production of clean energy storage.

He explained that lithium batteries are used as energy for electric automobile transportation, noting that in the future, the emphasis would be on “anything electric.”

As most cars will be hybrid in ten years, Yazami argued, there is an urgent need for Morocco to focus now on the production of clean energy and think about the way it is stored and used in electric cars.

The scientist’s comments come as Morocco has repeatedly signaled its willingness to embrace the green transition.

With the transition to electric car production increasingly becoming a necessity, Morocco has announced plans to increase its production of electric cars over the next two years.

According to Morocco’s Minister of Industry and Trade Ryad Mezzour, the country’s electric car production is expected to double in the next two to three years, reaching 100,000 units per year.

The target of this ambitious projection is attainable in light of Morocco’s present industrial capabilities, the minister explained.

Car manufacturing is the second-largest exporting sector in Morocco, with car eports reaching $5.6 billion dollars at the end of 2022, according to data reported by Asharq Business.

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