The Promise of a Ten Minute Charge, Without Tesla's Patents

Battery charge-time is more than a matter of convenience. In the case of electric cars, it could be the difference between full-on adoption and affluent novelty, or the difference between a clean(er) transportation future or one that clings to portable combustion machines until the bitter end, because who can even wait for things nowadays. Indeed, an issue now is how long electric cars take to charge: doing it at home, which is the ideal case, can take many hours—overnight—while doing it at...

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