Nissan Develops 10-Minute Electric Car Charger

NY Daily News reported that Nissan (TSE:7201) built a fast electric car charger using vanadium oxide.

As quoted in the market news:

The findings, reported by Nikkei news agency last week, could represent a huge leap forward in public acceptance of electric vehicles, hindered to date by sluggish charge times — a full charge of common EVs today can take up to eight hours. The breakthrough reportedly came by changing the electrode inside a capacitor from carbon to tungsten oxide and vanadium oxide to improve power.

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