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Didn’t Maxwell Technologies already announce a similar breakthrough a few years ago, and isn’t that why Tesla bought them?

Some patent lawyers are going to wake up to some good news today...




They did the dry electrode thing. That makes manufacturing cheaper but nothing more.


Tesla is using the dry electrode thing. Maxwell has been working on translating supercapacitor tech into battery design for quite some time.




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