Engineering360: "Faster Recharging Batteries Possible After New Insight"

Interesting article for two reasons. First, the team of researchers (or at least the ones mentioned) reinforced the shortcomings of the US education system...

Second, the article continues to push the "reduced carbon footprint" myth of using electric vehicles as a majority of the electricity available to recharge them comes from fossil fuels. Unless you are recharging your electric car from solar, wind, geothermal or nuclear power, you are just moving where the carbon is burned...

Given that batteries are chemical reactions, potentially of everything not in the helium column of the periodic table, it would seem reasonable that the optimum battery would consist of some unique 3-D architecture of a yet-to-be discovered coulombic cocktail of elements in electrolyte and electrodes.