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Re:New capacitor with 19-times energy density by m463 on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:43PM (#40315323)
I was using that as an analogy, but there's no reason you couldn't have a weird hybrid car with a generator, a capacitor and electric motors. No batteries.
Re:New capacitor with 19-times energy density by CRConrad on Sunday May 12, 2024 @07:18AM (#40333501)
No reason in principle, but for practical reason that probably will never become common. Seems more likely we'll get "hybrid EVs" with batteries and capacitors working together, capacitors acting as buffers for batteries. Until the technologies converge into a single thing that does both, but I'm guessing that'll take decades rather than years. (Then the only question that remains will be, will they be called batacitors or capatteries? :-)