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Car makers are spending a
of money on electric cars. In the
, electric cars will replace petrol cars. Environmentalists believe this will reduce the
of CO2 put into the
. A big problem for electric cars is charging the battery. Some batteries in
electric cars can take up to 12 hours to charge
. However, a
in Israel says it has created a lithium-ion battery that people can charge in
five minutes. This is the same amount of
it takes to fill a
of gas with petrol. The new lithium-ion batteries were developed by the Israeli company StoreDot. They are being manufactured by a Chinese company called Eve Energy.