cheap electric car battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:22:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Georgia Tech Supercapacitors Could Outperform Batteries Thanks to New Compound https://www.greenoptimistic.com/georgia-tech-supercapacitors-batteries/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/georgia-tech-supercapacitors-batteries/#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:22:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56071 The future of electric cars will likely involve a shift from the batteries currently used to capacitors instead. Even in 2011, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors knew that capacitors would outstrip the battery in both performance and cost. While replacing batteries with capacitors is still out of the realm of possibility, a new […]

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