Alonso described the new season as “the battery world championship”.

I’m guessing that was part of the plan. I’m hoping the R&D trickles down to consumer vehicles. It would be cool if small EVs with small, underpowered batteries could do something for an occasional boost without having to double the car’s weight. It kinda sucks that a short-range city EV suffers on power like that. Imagine how cheap you could make an EV with a 75% smaller battery and a supercapacitor to boost it to 100 once every few minutes.