Still not the wave of the future...
Now, if they could develop a supercapacitor to use for their electric storage media, they may be onto something. But batteries are, and always have been, a clumsy and rather inefficient means of power storage.
Batteries are basically very stupid, and will discharge their entire energy content in one mighty arcing blast, given the opportunity. Which includes just a whole lot of heat and light.
“Now, if they could develop a supercapacitor to use for their electric storage media, they may be onto something. But batteries are, and always have been, a clumsy and rather inefficient means of power storage. Batteries are basically very stupid, and will discharge their entire energy content in one mighty arcing blast, given the opportunity.”
And the supercapacitor will not???????????
Fuses or a current limiting device that should kick in if there should be a short circuit of some sort..................
Now, if they could develop a supercapacitor to use for their electric storage media, they may be onto something. But batteries are, and always have been, a clumsy and rather inefficient means of power storage.
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Elon Musk is very good at engineering better products and production methods from existing technologies. The result is commercially viable products and beating the competition. He may benefit from subsidies, but that’s the market he’s in and he’s still doing better than anybody else. He’s very rarely on the cutting edge.
Some people may criticize him and say there’s better, but I’d like to see some concrete examples.
Scientists create quick-charging hybrid supercapacitors
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-scientists-quick-charging-hybrid-supercapacitors.html
A battery may discharge fast given the opportunity, but it’s capacitors that will dump all the power in a very bright flash.