What I found most telling was that the press release and the web site didn't say anything about making capacitors, it only talked about making materials to make better capacitors. There are lots of system problems to work through with new materials to get a full solution.
Mike On April 3, 2016 9:49:33 PM MDT, Michael Ross via EV <[email protected]> wrote: >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) _______________________________________________ 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)
