A research paper in Nature Magazine, just published, but presented back in February, may point the way to multiple revolutions in electric vehicle battery design. The work was carried out with the Pennsylvania State University, with help from the National Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles as well as the Beijing Institute of Technology. The paper presents a series of wide ranging ideas which were tested against the US Department of Energy Model for what makes up a “useful” lithium ion battery. The main push was into speed of charge, and results were cited for both 70% and 75% depth of charge each achieved in roughly 10 minutes (at the same charge rate as a top end Tesla re-charge unit at…