In 2008, the Summer Engineering Workshop team (team of high school students and MIT undergraduates) was interested in making an electric go-kart. They decided to add a 110F Maxwell ultracapacitor into the mix.

See the web site : http://web.mit.edu/first/kart/

Electrical Go-Kart with Capacitive Regeneration and Boost Mode

On Youtube : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Omk3FqXStdg