Presumably it'd work the other way, too? Supercaps that let you recover more of the energy produced by regenerative braking should also give you short bursts o

Presumably it'd work the other way, too? Supercaps that let you recover more of the energy produced by regenerative braking should also give you short bursts of acceleration, no? I imagine a system similar to the KERS system used in F1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system