Hybrid car battery charges in just 10 minutes

American automotive researchers have come up with a car battery that can charge and discharge in just 10 minutes.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are touting their lithium nickel manganese oxide battery as an alternative to the nickel metal hydride used in current automotive hybrid batteries. And they said that their breakthrough came as the result of an ordered crystalline structure synthesis, which results in a freer flow of ions between metal layers. What all that means is that future hybrids could achieve a charging time that is 10 times faster than current technology.

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