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Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars
(www.theguardian.com)
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This sounds more like a capacitor than a battery. Also: that's a lot of current to dump into an energy storage device in a short period of time. There's no way you're going to be able to do that at home without major overhauls to the last mile of the electrical grid. (I also question whether dedicated charging stations will be able to do it either, without some sort of serious on-site energy storage/buffer to moderate the spikes in current draw to the broader electrical grid.)
Mazda played around with capacitors instead of batteries a while back. It didn’t get far.
Capicators are not as good as batteries at energy capicity vs weight and volume. Capicators are great at releasing large amounts of energy.