On 05/04/2010 02:41 PM, J. Clarke wrote:

Uh, the BYD is nothing special. If they were selling an electric that
can be charged in under 5 minutes...

This is very difficult technically--it would require huge current flows
or very high voltages.

A quick-change battery "sled" would make more sense, but then it becomes
tricky unless all the various manufacturers standardize on a small
number of designs to allow service stations to stock them all.

Chris