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      "definition": "Two storage technologies combined so each covers the part of the load it suits: typically a battery for energy, with supercapacitors, a flywheel or high-power cells for short peaks. In a bus or tram the supercapacitors absorb braking and acceleration pulses, sparing the battery the high currents that age it fastest.",
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        "definition": "A negative active material, Li₄Ti₅O₁₂, that works at about 1.55 V above lithium, so it never plates lithium and forms almost no SEI. The price is a low cell voltage of about 2.4 V and low energy density, traded for very long life and fast charging.",
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