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Originally Posted by Blizzard
Ok I just want to say forget what you know about batteries because it is all going to change soon, and I mean change.
How do you ask? Well easy really, its called ultracapacitors. GE has already made some and plans to put in to mass production in a few years. These ultracapacitors will have a charge time of just seconds and have a longer life time with no limit to the amount of charge and discharge cycles. Oh and they are more efficient for their size.
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the problem with using capacitors is that although you can get a lot of juice out of them quickly, but they don't last very long. There is a cordless drill out there that recharges in a minute or so, using ultra capacitors, and it dies after driving about 5 screws. The best application for ultracapacitors in a car would be either a drag racer, or storing the energy from regen braking.