So I got re-interested in super capacitors the other day. After the Tesla fiasco with Elon Musk and the NYT playing he-said she-said, it made me think about why there is such range anxiety in electric vehicles.

In my opinion it is because unlike normal gasoline powered vehicles, you cannot quickly recover from running out of fuel. You must be tethered, even with a "supercharger" to a charging station for at least an hour if not several hours. It is the same way with most mobile devices. Un-tethered time is nice, but it would seem that what makes us focus on battery life isn't that we absolutely must stay away from a wall charger, but that we don't want to be tied to it for significant periods of time.

With super capacitors replacing batteries, we could quite literally charge devices in seconds instead of hours. Would this change the way you feel about battery life? I know it would for me. If killing the battery in my phone meant a quick 30 seconds-1 minute charge time to completely refill the energy reserves, I wouldn't care about running out mid-day.

How about you? Where do you fall on the charging time is what causes batter-life-anxiety issue?