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Electric car maker BYD says it can charge 250 miles in five minutes. Here’s why

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Two new vehicles set to launch in April will be able to add 250 miles of range in just five minutes .

That’s twice as fast as even the next generation of Tesla Superchargers .

Getting those fast chargers in the ground likely won’t be a huge breakthrough, experts say.

Shenzhen is starting to look a lot like the Silicon Valley of the 2020 's.

Hardware and software businesses are clustering together to tackle one of the global economy’s biggest challenges: electrification.

Still, winning will come down to execution, and no one has quite pulled that off yet.