India, March 19 -- 10 minute grocery deliveries. 20 minute food deliveries. Unless you've been living under a rock the past few years, you'd have likely seen the same expanse of time shorten rapidly. Perhaps not exactly an expanse of time, but we're impatient. Our lives are weaved in such a way, everything must be instant (gratification too, it's metric being social media engagements). Perhaps where speed makes sense, for reasons of convenience, utility and even safety, is with how quickly electric vehicles can charge their batteries.

Chinese automakers are quietly pushing the technology envelope, and most of us don't even realise it. That likely stems from an electric vehicle (EV) obsession that's revolving around Tesla (recent, un-like...