Model S has 7000 Li cells. The energy/power density of caps is still far from equal to Li-ion cells.
However, caps passed first muster with Elon Musk, he started graduate work at Stanford into caps for EV propulsion but left school to work on the internet as a more promising avenue of progress. So when he started into EVs seriously he already knew if caps were a worthy alternative to batteries - not. EM also says he still thinks they might have promise. He would be using them if they actually met the requirements. On Apr 3, 2016 6:41 PM, "Jan Steinman via EV" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, trolling, not a chance this will see the light of day. > > Perhaps, perhaps not. > > Musk put a thousand laptop batteries in a Tesla. > > Except for the leakage current issue with electrolytic capacitors, why > can’t you put a thousand capacitors in an EV? > > I’m not claiming it’s that simple, but surely, it’s that simple, > conceptually. > > Jan > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160403/c6f807ff/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
