Well, with a name like that, I would naturally assume they are using super capacitors instead of lithium chemistry batteries. This would make sense if there was a challenge (or high cost) to getting sufficient current out of the cells-- but Tesla's acceleration capabilities are about the max you could want to safely put into a passenger car I think.
Or maybe they just took the name cause it's associated with electricity.
In that case, I think "Faraday" would be a much better name. Adding "Future" to it makes it sound like it's a fictional high tech company from the 1950s. Feels retro.
Too obvious maybe. Anyway, electrocuting elephants has been done before. Maybe this time create a sexy start-up, grab hype then flame out spectacularly. Just the thing to FUD a nascent EV industry.
Existing battery's energy density is already a long obstacle to prevent us from making lighter smaller EVs. And super capacitors energy densities are even lower[1]! Now with new materials like graphene or carbon nanotubes are promising, but they are definitely not ready for primetime in 2017 [2]!
Or maybe they just took the name cause it's associated with electricity.
In that case, I think "Faraday" would be a much better name. Adding "Future" to it makes it sound like it's a fictional high tech company from the 1950s. Feels retro.