"Death Knell" for internal combustion engine?

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Texas startup says it has batteries beat
AUSTIN, Texas - Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.




An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised "technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries," meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline.

http://energizenowinitiative.blogspot.com/2007/09/texas-startup-says-it-has-batteries.html

The vehicles would use "Ultra-Capacitors" instead of batteries. It's a revolutionary concept, but one that others have worked on (without success) for years. If you read the article, you will see that there are sceptics. But if they have perfected this technology, it would have many more applications than just powering vehicles...