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If you have supercaps you may become a Tesla owner...!
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary
... just imagine one of these days a 300 mile range Tesla that charges in 5 minutes.
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Old post, I know, but:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/te...eries-a-boost/
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Tesla has acquired energy storage company Maxwell Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at $218 million, a deal aimed at helping the electric automaker improve its batteries and lower costs as more competitors enter the market.
The offer will value each of Maxwell’s 45.9 million shares at $4.75. The merger is expected to close in the second quarter of 2019.
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That dream may well come true sooner than later...
Or at least slightly less untrue. 
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The secret sauce is Maxwell’s dry electrode technology, which is used to make the ultracapacitors. The company says this dry electrode technology, which can be applied to batteries of varying chemistries, boosts performance and is more cost-effective than the more commonly used wet electrode technology.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a fan of uItracapacitors and has long viewed the technology as the possible path to a breakthrough in battery performance. He even tweeted back in 2013 that he was going to do his PhD at Stanford on ultracapacitors.
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At least we can have a "Tesla" powerbank. 
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2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut.
  lifetime FE over 0.2 Gigameter or 0.13 Megamile.
For confirmation go to people just like you.
For education go to people unlike yourself.
Last edited by RedDevil; 02-04-2019 at 03:58 PM..
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