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Battery breakthrough set to accelerate electric-car development

A team of scientists working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are claiming a significant breakthrough in recharging times for lithium-ion batteries. According to findings published in the scientific journal Nature, MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder have unlocked the potential of lithium-ion batteries by patenting a unique process which is claimed to allow a typical laptop power pack to be fully recharged in less than a minute--an improvement in recharging performance of roughly 90 percent over existing lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries generate electric current via the flow of lithium ions across an electrolyte, from an electrode to a cathode.

Top Gear Tonight: New Range Rover, designing a car for the elderly & James McAvoy is SIARPC

Top Gear tonight - Series 19, episode 5 – sees James testing the new Range Rover, Jeremy & Richard designing transport for the elderly & James McAvoy is SIARPC. You may have to start wondering what you’re going to do on Sunday evening soon, as tonight’s episode of Top Gear – episode 5 of series 19 – is the last proper Top Gear of the current series. Don’t panic yet, though, as there are still two more episodes to go, but they will be the two parts of a Top Gear special to Africa to find the source of the Nile.

University of Huddersfield Degree Show 2008

Destinations, the graduate show of the Transport Design degree course at the University of Huddersfield, showed projects created by graduating students earlier this summer as part of the School of Art and Design's Graduate Show week, and also at the New Designers exhibition held in London's Business Design Centre. While a significant proportion of the course is orientated towards automotive exterior and interior design, projects also allow for a wider interpretation of transport design including boats, public transport, trucks and motorcycles as well as more conceptual approaches towards transport issues of the future. This year's graduates investigated a large range of themes and produced a variety of design solutions.