"Research doubles electric car range" claim #4,381 - but who's counting? [View all]

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[div style="float: left; padding-right: 12px;"]"Researchers at the University of Wollongong have developed an electric car battery that allows vehicles to travel more than twice as far.

The battery, which charges in a couple of minutes, may also eventually be used to power remote devices like mobile phones, iPads and laptop computers more effectively.

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She said they recently made the breakthrough with the development of a new Germanium-based material with five times more energy storage than the batteries now used for electric vehicles."

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1482421/research-doubles-electric-car-range/

I'm poking a little fun, but with the quantity of research on EV batteries underway (especially relating to nanomaterials) a bet against major improvements in the next 5 years is not a wise one.