Right, I don't think the topic is really about current super capacitor designs. Nor will any new designs be compared to current battery chemistry and design - they will all advance.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 25, 2014, at 1:13 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Years ago Solectria found that by leveling the load on a lead battery, > > reducing its peak current requirements, supercaps / ultracaps could > improve > > an EV's range. Unfortunately, though, it was a little more complex than > > just paralleling them with the battery. > > The last time supercaps were in the news, I did some pricing, etc., on > them. > > Never mind prices. You can buy supercaps / ultracaps of a suitable size to > function in an EV. > > ...but you get marginally higher peak wattages with some CALB batteries, > and substantially higher peak wattages with A123 batteries, than you do > with supercaps. And the batteries have much larger storage capacities and > far superior self-discharge rates. For less money. > > I wouldn't automatically rule out capacitor-type devices for the future, > but batteries already have them beat at their own home park. > > b& > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141125/f8d23d51/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
