“No proven or likely ultracapacitor capacity can provide a high AER, but what power it does store is available: all of it, maybe more than you really wanted, at any instant. You can get your 40kw for a few seconds easily from a capacity of under 5kwh, unlike a battery.”

If they use A123s as it appears they might, a 5KWH pack can deliver 40KW no sweat. As a matter of fact, a 5KWH pack using the ANR26650M1 cells could for a few seconds deliver 200KW with no harm to the cells. A123s have very low internal resistance and thus very high power density. Google the Killacycle for details. I use them myself on my RC plane, pulling 80A from an 8 cell series pack during vertical climbouts and they barely get warm with no cooling (10 minute total discharge time).

Just got around to reading your responses to my #167 about the retard.

I am not overly pleased with our President as I was not with Clinton and Gore. I am a registered Democrat, but find it very difficult to vote for any of them. I am beginning to find it increasingly difficult to vote for any Republican also. I am conservative, more towards the middle on most matters and somewhat to the right when it comes to national defense matters and border security.

I did not like it when people make insulting remarks about any President, whether I like him or not. I was hoping we could get to a better attitude in Washington, but the game of politics and one-upmanship is preventing that. No one is really looking out for the American people anymore.

I suspect we three would be in agreement many times more than not on a wide range of topics. I just reacted to one too many instances of people referring to the President as a retard or as dumb, which he is neither.

I meant to say I am NOT a right wing Republican.

I’m really sorry though to disagree.
Oddly, I am a Republican who really misses the “other guy”.
I am a Republican, just a right wing Republican. I don’t let the party
BS speak for me when I vote. I choose who I think will best serve the country and my family. So when I vote, I don’t really look at party, but the person. I suppose I should be registered as an Independent, because that is really how I think.

BTW, as I said long ago, one of the amazing things about GM-Volt.com is that people who may strongly disagree on other issues – Republicans vs. Democrats, “greenie weenies” (me, for example) vs. the opposite and so on and so on – find common ground here.

Volt Or Bust!