New high-voltage capacitors and voltage dividers that operate at temperatures as low as minus 60ºC have been launched by Maxwell Technologies’ Swiss subsidiary, it has been announced. Designed for use in freezing Arctic conditions, the new…
By 2023 the smart and portable electronic device batteries sector will be worth $86bn, super-capacitors will top $4.5bn and secondary lithium batteries will likely have lost some of their current 57 per cent market share…
A report from TechNavio entitled Global Ultracapacitor Market 2011-2015 claims that the worldwide market for ultracapacitors is expected to grow at 20.6% CAGR during the reporting period 2011-2015. The report, which also covers supercapacitors and…
27 September 2012 The National Science Foundation has handed Clemson University, USA, physics professor Apparao Rao a $1.2m grant to look into using carbon nano-materials for energy storage.Rao will lead a team of Clemson and University of…
27 September 2012 Energy giant E.ON is backing a University of Nottingham, UK, research effort to develop a low-cost, rapid charge and discharge energy storage device called a supercapattery.The work is being led by Prof. George…
FastCAP Systems Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. USA, is plans to bring nano-tech enhanced supercharged capacitors to the EV market, says CEO Ricardo Signorelli. MIT alumnus Signorelli claims his company’s “ultracaps,’’ will be able to deliver…
Under the banner of The EEStor Ultracapacitor Saga Continues Greentech Media wonders what has happened to EEStor’s legendary super capacitor, which, Greentech says, “would store more energy and charge and discharge faster than previous materials…
A report from TechNavio entitled Global Ultracapacitor Market 2011-2015 claims that the worldwide market for ultracapacitors is expected to grow at 20.6% CAGR during the reporting period 2011-2015. The report, which also covers supercapacitors and…