{"id":87395,"date":"2019-02-05T01:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/is-teslas-elon-musk-making-good-on-prediction-that-capacitors-supersede-batteries"},"modified":"2019-02-05T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:22:13","slug":"is-teslas-elon-musk-making-good-on-prediction-that-capacitors-supersede-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/is-teslas-elon-musk-making-good-on-prediction-that-capacitors-supersede-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Is Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk Making Good On Prediction That Capacitors \u2018Supersede\u2019 Batteries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-teslas-elon-musk-making-good-on-prediction-that-capacitors-supersede-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I were to make a prediction, I\u2019d think there\u2019s a good chance that it is not batteries. But capacitors.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today he may be making good on his prediction. The electric vehicle manufacturer confirmed that it has acquired a small San Diego lab that owns ultracapacitor patents and technology. <\/p>\n<p>Maxwell Technologies provides dry electrode manufacturing technology that can be used to make to make batteries that power electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. The company announced that in an all-stock transaction it will merge and become a wholly owned by a subsidiary of Tesla.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lianeyvkoff\/2019\/02\/04\/is-teslas-elon-musk-making-good-on-prediction-that-capacitors-supersede-batteries\/#479b46b64e0f\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lianeyvkoff\/2019\/02\/04\/is-tesla...9b46b64e0f<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were to make a prediction, I\u2019d think there\u2019s a good chance that it is not batteries. But capacitors.\u201d Today he may be making good on his prediction. The electric vehicle manufacturer confirmed that it has acquired a small San Diego lab that owns ultracapacitor patents and technology. Maxwell Technologies provides dry electrode manufacturing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}