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What is the difference between a battery and a supercapacitor?

Supercapacitors have better thermal management, a higher cycle life and better efficiency than batteries. Batteries have hazardous failure mechanisms because of internal chemical reaction, a thermal runaway can cause possible explosion.

7/15/2022 4:36:55 PM

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