Thoughts?........................
Color me skeptical.
It's stupid. The average household has less than a 100 amp service. Where are you going to get 30 K Watt hours in a minute?
Great news if it works out. Storage seems the one big hurdle still.
Haven’t super capacitors been around for quite a while, and isn’t the problem with all of them catastrophic energy release if they are damaged?
I think this is gullible journalists taken in by technobabble.
Battery exaggerations aside, Tesla is soon to be swamped with head-on competitors that are better capitalized, have more experience, and aren’t so dependent on government.
China is going big into the electric vehicle market too.
A more skeptical view of Fisker claims:
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Fisker cuts through the battery hype.
My thought is that the good minds are approaching the electric car problem bassackwards. The big seller electric car will be for low mile journeys within cities. The market will be commuting and trips to the grocery store.
Rather than the top of the line BMW or Lexus, the model should be the golf cart or the fork lift. Both are extremely successful vehicles, especially the electric forklifts used throughout American Industry.
Yale should be developing the car
Basic utility should be expanded until the price exceeds what is needed. At that point the manufacturers should back off the luxury and provide what is needed.
Unlikely.
Setting aside issues of power generation (how to make it?) and power transmission (how to get it where you want it), I'd think that the heat such a process would generate would be prohibitive.
A capacitor is an energy reservoir, but what material could be charged at that rate and not generate heat, potentially increase resistance, melt, etc.
Guess these questions are why it would be a breakthrough.
Physics says it is impossible.