Special Batteries to Ruin the Combustion Engine?

Apparently a Texas start up has filed for an interesting patent. I couldn't do it justice, so here's a section from the source article.

An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised "technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries," meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline.

By contrast, some plug-in hybrids on the horizon would require motorists to charge their cars in a wall outlet overnight and promise only 50 miles of gasoline-free commute. And the popular hybrids on the road today still depend heavily on fossil fuels.

So, how radical does that sound to you? A car battery that lasts incredibly longer than anything out there?

If one could not see, this is almost obviously going to replace the combustion engine and gasoline as the engine duo of choice. Instead, it would be replaced by a battery and electricity, two very clean alternatives.

This almost reminds me of the mordern era in Civ, when everything starts getting a whole lot cleaner.

It would seem that it sounds incredible to quite a few people. There are many skeptics. And with something so fantastical, one cannot resist being a skeptic. To add to the skepticism, this is a company that has mostly flown under the radar.

However, as is the creed of almost any skeptic, "I do not believe. But I would love to be proven wrong."