Yeah, Ultracaps will be the way of the future. I did some math on it once. Lessee, 45 minute drive each way, 90 minutes total, say averaging 20 HP, 30 HP hours = 22KWH = 79,200,000 Watt Seconds = 79,200,000 amp * 1 second * 1 volts = ~79 MegaFarads at 1V, if I did that right. Any gEEks out there?
I believe that the total output of at least the US ultra cap manufacturing base is going into weapon systems, as I've stated before. The navy was building an electric weaponized ship. I forget it it was one of those hockey puck throwers or some type of charged plasma thing. Last I heard, I think they mothballed that build. They also built a hockey puck thrower thing out in the NM desert as part of a missle defense system experiment. Both those systems take huge capacitor banks to dump that much energy at once. I figger that once the military has every capacitor they think they will possibly need, then we will start seeing them in the consumer market. There was an ultra cap plant being built in Austin. Never heard anything about it again. Private financing, if I recall, and headed by two ex IBM engineers. Remember that IBM keeps the good stuff locked away until someone else is just about to release a similar product, then out it comes and they can beat them to market. So, in other words, IBM's engineering is way ahead of what's on the market and that's where these guys came from.

It wouldn't just be for missile's anymore.