Ultra-fast prototype Polestar 5 coming next year with batteries from StoreDot

Thursday, Polestar held a big event announcing various plans for the electric car brand. One of the particularly interesting announcements was that it and Israeli battery start-up company StoreDot have made big strides in their ultra-fast charging battery technology. In fact, Polestar will show a running Polestar 5 prototype with StoreDot's batteries sometime in 2024.

In case you haven't heard about StoreDot, the company has been around for a number of years. We even reported on it way back in 2017. Polestar only just started investing in the company last year. And its promise of incredible charging is the draw. StoreDot claims their technology could allow an electric car to get 100 miles of range in just 5 minutes. And in photos of the prototype Polestar battery packs, stickers tout the ability to charge from 10% to 80% in just 10 minutes.