Ultracapacitors could assist GM’s eAssist hybrid auto system

We read with interest General Motors’ recent announcement that it is introducing a fuel-saving technology it calls “eAssist” as standard equipment on some of its auto platforms, beginning with the 2012 model year. The system uses an electric motor powered by a lithium-ion battery pack to assist the gasoline engine with acceleration, and it incorporates [...]

Stop-Start Autos: A Simple Premise

In my last post, I observed that in automotive design, as with so many things in life, the simplest answer is often the best answer. The question at hand was how best to make cars greener and more economical to operate. My answer is what the industry calls “stop-start idle elimination.”
In keeping with the K-I-S-S [...]

Stop-Start: K-I-S-S for Greener Cars

You’ve heard it over and over, from the lips of football coaches, management gurus and countless others – Keep it simple stupid, or K-I-S-S.  According to Wikipedia, “The KISS principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided.”
Why, then is the quest for greener, more efficient [...]

Ultracapacitors support fuel-saving stop-start system

Responding to the European Union’s CO2 emission reduction legislation and US CAFE fuel economy targets, major automakers around the world are aggressively implementing “stop-start” idle elimination systems across their main product lines.  In fact, Industry sources forecast that within five years stop-start will be standard on 20 million internal combustion engine cars per year. However, [...]

Maxwell’s involvement with China has grown!

 
As Maxwell’s involvement with China has grown, both to source low-cost commodities and assembly labor for our ultracapacitor products and as an increasingly significant consumer of our products, I have become a regular visitor to this amazing country and a fascinated observer of its dynamic economy.
A couple of weeks ago, I was reading a Western [...]

The Latest Media Coverage on Maxwell’s Ultracapacitors

Recently we had the good fortune of being included in two news stories I’d like to share with you.

The first was by Heather Clancy from ZDNet’s GreenTech Pastures about ultracapacitors and their different uses in energy storage. I spoke with Heather last month while on a trip to New York. Here’s part of what she had to say:

Reader Question: Why Hasn’t Detroit Embraced Ultracapacitors?

Ultracapacitors have proven their value, safety, efficiency and durability in more than 1,000 public transit buses now in daily revenue service in the U.S., Europe and Asia, so we aren’t suggesting that U.S. automakers take a “leap of faith.” Rather, we are suggesting that Detroit could reinvent itself and create U.S. jobs by taking advantage of cost-effective, readily available, American technology to produce the energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly cars consumers want.