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The end of the combustion engine in sight?


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An Austin company, EEStor, started by two former IBM technologists, has acquired a patent for a battery ultracapacitor that they claim can recharge in five minutes and power a car for 500 miles on that charge without gasoline. Critics are skeptical, but this EESTor company has received venture capital funds from some powerful hitters, including VC firms that helped start Google and Amazon.com.

If their claims are even close to being true, could this mean the coming end of the combustion engine?

Texas startup says it has batteries beat

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Seems to me what you posted was a re-hash of some snake oil that was dismissed as nonsense in the 1970s and 1950s. Every generation manages to get fooled by that one. In contrast, this idea at least got a patent though it remains to be seen if it goes anywhere. I am not convinced there is any conspiracy to keep these things hidden as someone somewhere else in the world would develop it if there was anything to it.
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