The battery problem

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    Although there have been significant improvements in EV batteries, electric vehicles still fall far short of being all round reliable transport to replace the I C Engine that we all use and love

    There has been talk of capacitors for battery power and this does form what may be the best hope yet

    Developed for smart phones, but if they are successful there will be no reason that they can't be expanded to suit automotive use


    Researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have devised a technique for creating flexible supercapacitors that not only store more energy than comparable devices, but can also be fully-charged in seconds and continue to be recharged more than 30,000 times without affecting performance or capacity.

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