See here for a more balanced article on the development. Already licenced by A123.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22280/http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22280/

Note that it only says that it ..may also recharge quickly, but then faster charging is not particularly useful - A123s can already be charged in 10 mins. You would need vast power supplies to charge in seconds. Unless you used another set of them charge the ones in the robot...

Higher discharge currents than current A123s would only really be useful for very high power (10 kwatt in a heavy) intermittent use electric weapons. More continuous use and youre limited by capacity.

If you stuck to the 36V limit, it probably wouldnt be a conventional motor producing those sort of power levels, because you would be talking thousands of amps.

But if we could get an EO to agree to use several hundred volts... then theres this nice little 60 kwatt brushless motor:
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/products/281799/exclusive-magneti-marelli-reveal-f1-kers.htmlhttp://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...magneti-marell i-reveal-f1-kers.html

John