On the Market: Ultracapacitors that can rearrange the structure of the tech world

VINCENT TEETSOV

You may have heard of the Flux Capacitor from the movie Back to the Future. It was the heart of what powered the Doc’s time travelling DeLorean.

But outside of that story, ultracapacitors, also known as supercapacitors or ülikondensaatorid, are very real and very powerful. In September 2020, it was reported across tech media outlets that the Estonian company Skeleton Technologies and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany had teamed up to “develop a SuperBattery that charges in 15 seconds.”

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Skeleton Technologies’ co-founder and CEO Taavi Madiberk and co-founder and Chairman Oliver Ahlberg.

Photo: Arno Mikkor