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Not really as large capacity capacitors (this one seems to be 4V) tend to be low voltage as well. You can touch the terminals without harm but attempting to short them is going to be, er, entertaining. I have accidentally touched a 200V capacitor and it was not fun.

That's interesting. What good is 4V in an EV? You'd need cables as thick as your arm to handle the amperage to do anything useful.

You might be able to put more in series if the tolerance of the capacitance value is low enough.

Otherwise, you can use a step-up voltage converter to generate a voltage as high as you want, in order to distribute power at greater distances. You can make bidirectional converters, which work as step-down converters for charging and as step-up converters for discharging.




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