Elon Musk on Supercapacitors

snippet from Elon Musk's interview with Khan Acadamy where he speaks about supercapacitors

[byram]

Though very brief it touches on the key idea that as a supplementary system it would potentially resolve the issues of cold weather Li-ion performance and append the current range of EVs even further without greatly affecting the cost.

[TheBowersj]

capacitors in series at 356.4 volts would be worthless and would take up too much volume to even reach a usable amp hour rating