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Tesla Rival Sets Out to Banish 160-Year-Old Lead Tech From Cars

  • Skeleton Technologies bets on supercapacitors to help run cars
  • Elon Musk’s company has bought one of Skeleton’s competitors

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Your sleek new Tesla Model S or electronic BMW has a distinctly 19th century feature that you may not be aware of, among its batteries. A company in Estonia wants to change that.