You would use these to provide peak power in a system that had short term power needs that were high above the average power needs AND had that power requirement as a bottleneck. Energy is the bottleneck for cars though, not power. unless you're wanting your prius to accelerate like a ferrari

Maybe it would be useful for less losses with regenerative braking? These would presumably be able to charge much faster and then trickle that power out to the normal battery. You'd need actual power numbers for a car to determine if it would be useful or not.

In other words this is for "boy I wish I didn't have to have so much extra battery capacity in order to get the power I need" situation which... cars don't have. Maybe in F1?

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marcosdumay 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> unless you're wanting your prius to accelerate like a ferrari

That's the point of a hybrid.

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dcrazy an hour ago | parent [-]

It’s the best part of any electric drivetrain. Especially when you can remap the throttle to really launch from zero. :)

(I find that electric acceleration makes highway merging much safer.)

	▲	LoganDark 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My EV has the opposite problem, something like half throw is full throttle and then the rest of the pedal does nothing. They do it for marketing reasons but I still don't like it