Tired of waiting for your mobile phone to recharge? Or worse, your electric car, which can take a lot longer, evenin January, the Israeli company called StoreDot and China’s Eve Energy have demonstrated that they can produce a new breed of lithium-ion battery that can recharge in five minutes. “I think such fast-charging batteries should be available to the mass market in three years,” Chao-Yang Wang of Pennsylvania State University (one of the article’s co-authors) told .
