YOUR NEXT CAR WILL BE A VOLT:

At last year's Microsoft ThinkNext event in Tel Aviv, where new technologies by several Israeli start-ups go on display and get their "big break," Dr. Doron Myersdorf, CEO of Israeli start-up StoreDot, wowed the crowd by promising within a year to develop a technology that could reduce the time needed to recharge cellphones from hours to minutes.

At ThinkNext 2015 Tuesday in Tel Aviv, Myersdorf, fulfilled that promise, displaying before a crowd of some 1,500 a phone as it recharged from zero power to 100% charged in about two minutes.

And while he was doing that, Myersdorf made another promise: "Next year, we will present a technology to recharge an electric car in five minutes."

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