Toshiba to make electric bus with 5-minute charge

Toshiba Corp. will be developing an electric-powered bus with a charge time of just five minutes. In cooperation with Tokyo’s Minato Ward, the electronics giant will retrofit small buses owned by the ward with its new lithium-ion cells and motors. The five-minute recharge when the battery level is at 50 percent is less than a quarter of the time it takes with a conventional lithium-ion battery. The retrofitting will be done at a relatively low cost because it...