Charging 75% of a 80 kWh battery in 5 minutes requires an average charging rate of 720 KW, that's a lot of high current, high voltage electricity to move, plus there'll be significant amounts of waste heat that needs to removed and li-ion batteries long generally don't last under those conditions.
And as for battery advances, they're probably #1 in terms of hype (maybe just after fusion) where new advances are announced weekly but turn out to be useless for mass production. I wouldn't expect revolution, just the standard slow evolution and iteration in other fields.
Last edited by accord1999; 04-05-2016 at 11:47 AM.
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