Ultracapacitors: What’s so good about ‘em anyway?

Ultracapacitors are not exactly a household word or a household item today but they certainly have gained a significant amount of attention in technical circles, and now are seeing more commercial press coverage and commercial success as the business of ultracapacitors has crested from the imagined to the real over the past five years.

Europe Loves Cleantech and Maxwell

I went to Europe last month to have some on one-on-one meetings with managers of different SRI funds (Sustainable Renewable Investments) in Geneva and Zurich, so obviously they were interested in cleantech.  I came away impressed with the extensive amount of homework these managers had done to really understand Maxwell’s ultracapacitor technology and business. 
Face-to-face meetings [...]

Ultracapacitor Technology for the Here and Now!

Whether it’s potential customers, partners or investors, whenever I speak to people outside the company the fact that impresses them most about Maxwell is that the technology is in use all over the world today.
We have literally millions of ultracapacitors out in the field working everyday, in windmills for pitch control, in trains and buses [...]