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Commercial nanoporous carbon RP-20 was activated with water vapor in the temperature range from 950°C to 1150°C. The XRD analysis was carried out on nanoporous carbon powder samples to investigate the structural changes (graphitisation) in modified carbon that occurred at activation temperatures T⩾1150°C. The first-order Raman spectra showed the absorption peak at 1582cm −1 and the disorder (D) peak at 1350cm −1 . The low-temperature N 2 adsorption experiments were performed at −196°C and a specific surface area up to 2240m 2 g −1 for carbon activated at T=1050°C was measured. The cell capacitance for two electrode activated nanoporous carbon system advanced up to 60F g −1 giving the specific capacitance ∼240Fg −1 to one electrode nanoporous carbon ∣1.2M (C 2 H 5 ) 3 CH 3 NBF 4 +acetonitrile solution interface. A very wide region of ideal polarisability for two electrode system (∼3.2V) was achieved. The low frequency limiting specific capacitance very weakly increases with the rise of specific area explained by the mass transfer limitations in the nanoporous carbon electrodes. The electrochemical characteristics obtained show that some of these materials under discussion can be used for compilation of high energy density and power density non-aqueous electrolyte supercapacitors with higher power densities than aqueous supercapacitors.