There’s progress on this. Lithium-iron phosphate on the low end, solid-state batteries on the high end.
Solid-state batteries are just starting to work. You can now buy early versions at Home Depot.[1] Not good enough for volume use in cars yet.
If 10-minute charging can be achieved, which looks feasible, chargers can replace gas pumps on a one for one basis.
BTW. Yoshino created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, and (co-)won the Nobel Prize for it.
The company seems to be unaffiliated with the Nobel prize winner though: https://yoshinopower.com/pages/solid-state-technology (thanks @CTLaw for double-checking this)
Or there is no relationship and the company just took his name.
Something is strange about Yoshino.
Here’s a US trademark registration:
This is CA secstate info on the registrantnt:
ALPHA STAR LLC (201913610090)
Request Certificate
| Initial Filing Date | 05/10/2019 |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Standing - SOS | Good |
| Standing - FTB | Good |
| Standing - Agent | Good |
| Standing - VCFCF | Good |
| Formed In | CALIFORNIA |
| Entity Type | Limited Liability Company - CA |
| Principal Address | 8676 ROCHESTER AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 |
| Mailing Address | 8676 ROCHESTER AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA,CA91730 |
| Statement of Info Due Date | 05/31/2025 |
| Agent | Individual TIAN LEI HAN 8676 ROCHESTER AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 |
Here’s a JP registration filed by after the US was filed and by a JP applicant Yoshino Power Japan Co., Ltd.:
https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/detail/JP502023000076067
Hmm, you’re right – my source was wrong, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence that he’s associated with this company.
Land Shark:
Barstow is a major rest stop on the way to Vegas: outlet malls and In N Out Burger.
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive…” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The cat must have had something to do with getting the dog to start chewing on the battery pack,
The dog’s name from now on will be Sparky 
Battery-powered trains:
My question – why batteries if they could use supercapacitors?
Interesting how many utility-provided battery systems there are in CA:
In the meantime, a friend traveling on West coast has shared with me a video of an arcing power line, even without wind:
Last month:
Six months after opening, the state-of-the-art fire station in Stadtallendorf, Germany was gutted by flames from a fire truck’s lithium-ion batteries. With no fire alarm or sprinkler system, the station couldn’t be saved.
