Excellent. The only thing keeping me from buying an electric car is charging times.

Good news but unnecessary soon with 1 minute charging solid state batteries coming on the market is a surprise move that will stun Detroit.

I think reducing charging times would increase the appeal of the electric vehicle. Now to work on the cost and the range.

That's a lot of energy to shift in a short period of time - So consideration would need to given towards a massive update in the electricity supply system.

Current eclectic battery cars really aren't the solution, fine as a smaller volume stop gap, but its the wrong solution (barring any dramatic change in battery technology).

Hydrogen has the potential to give all the consumer advantages of petrol, with non of the downsides of current Lithium based batteries, with the potential to be even greener.

Almost all of range anxiety is the result of poor planning and badly-thought-out charging infrastructure. For daily commutes, anything over 100 miles with overnight recharge should be fine. For most longer trips, we just need to move away from the gas-pump model and toward charge-enabled parking spots at rest stops and elsewhere. For the tiny residual, that's what rentals/hsared vehicles are for. It's incredibly wasteful to size everyone's vehicles to meet the occasional demands of a small minority.

Come on now, EVs are really not any kind of a solution for anything, except for how to get rich off of the gullibility of most people. How much energy does it take to get the Lithium from raw ore to finished product? What about any other chemical compounds that are needed? And then what about the disposal of the batteries after they are no longer usable? And let's not forget about where that electricity is coming from! Is it from burning Carbon based fuels of some kind? If it's solar or wind power, how much energy does it take to produce the solar panels or make the the wind turbines? There is a certain amount of energy in various forms that is needed each day to run our modern day world, where does it come from and at what cost? There's no such thing as a free lunch. Somewhere, somebody, somehow, is paying for it. Unless you're just picking it up off of the ground and it's ready to eat. And just how often does that ever happen??

Expanded Viewpoint, All of the expenditures that you are talking about are one time investments. Having not to put gas and motor oil in a car ever again is eternal, without the byproducts. Making gas from oil is one dirty game and one that we need to minimize.

Has anyone thought about the amount of current that must be available from the grid; transfer to the EV... to charge in 10 minutes or less?

Here we go again - well said Brian M. Lets take a relatively conservative 60kWh battery (perhaps 300km range) - to charge this in 10 minutes requires an average of 360kW. While this is not as extreme as some claims, this is still around 20 times the maximum capacity of a UK domestic supply, and if everyone wanted to do this at 'fuel' station you would need a new HV pylon network and an awful lot of wind generators! Hydrogen or perhaps Bio-Butanol as a close replacement for petrol without major infrastructure changes makes more sense. I hope Vince was joking.

That is technology used years on cell phone fast charging (like Qualcomm With) and I think even EV charging now is not totally constant current. But the bottleneck will be how fast you can draw electricity from the grid. There is a limit there so EV charging can lot be in minutes. But with over night home charging I only need charge once or twice a month outside. I had less than 100 mile EV for last 4 years. People think 100 miles are low because they forgot that is 100 miles every morning.