New Emissions Standards Will Help Ultracapacitor Adoption

Ultracapacitors can be recharged through regenerative braking and provide the power needed for acceleration and starting the vehicle—making the battery last longer. By decreasing the size of the battery, and at the same time increasing its life, ultracapacitors reduce system cost for all types of hybrid vehicles.

Ultracapacitors and Batteries: Mortal Enemies or Best of Friends?

This is what is happening with ultracapacitors and batteries today. Batteries are being designed in where only ultracapacitors are needed. In contrast, ultracapacitors are being used where batteries just won’t do. Fortunately, there are some very progressive thinkers out there who recognize that energy delivery systems usually have more than one job to do and using the combination of the two is the best choice for the job.

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.

Lithium everywhere but not a drop to… drive? Part I

You can hardly pick up a newsworthy publication on any given day without getting a hefty dose of facts, hype, propaganda, and special interest stories about lithium ion batteries. It is all there for the reading. The amount of information flowing on lithium ion batteries and their role in the ultimate salvation of the automotive [...]

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 [...]