Toshiba is working on the next generation of lithium-ion battery technology and says it will deliver a compact electric vehicle 'with a range of 320kms after six minutes of ultra-rapid charging' by 2019.

The battery is based on SCiB technology with a titanium niobium oxide anode material that has 'double the lithium storage capacity by volume' of the graphite-based anodes generally used in lithium-ion batteries.