Electric cars are all the rage these days and several governments have plans to slowly phase out internal combustion engines in favor of them over the next decade. However, before electric cars fill our roads, the battery sector will have to find ways to drastically improve the current recharging rates. A wide ranging team of researchers have taken advantage of another technology that has captured the public eye, artificial intelligence ("AI") for clues on how to improve recharging rates. The team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Stanford University and the Toyota Research Institute wanted to see whether artificial intelligence could speed up the testing process required for novel charging techniques. They wrote a program that predicted how batteries would respond to different charging approaches, and it was able to cut the testing process from almost two years to 16 days.