Energy Storage

Thermoelectric harvesting will be on production hybrid electric on-road vehicles from 2018. It will be commonplace on hybrids in 2020 and almost entirely to charge the battery, or increasingly supercapacitor or supercabattery used for power.

Researchers looking for a better understanding of liquid electrolyte may have found a pathway forward.

A new electrode design for lithium-ion batteries has been shown to potentially reduce the charging time from hours to minutes by replacing the conventional graphite electrode with a network of tin-oxide nanoparticles.

Lithium-sulfur batteries are of great commercial interest because they boast theoretical specific energy densities considerably greater than those of their already-well-established cousin, lithium ion batteries.

At an event in Los Angeles last year, Tesla showcased battery swap technology to demonstrate that it's possible to replace a Model S battery in less time than it takes to fill a gas tank.

Researchers are working to create an electric car battery that is smaller, cheaper and allows drivers to go farther on a charge.

United Chemi-Con is the american subsidiary of Nippon Chemi-Con. The Nippon Chemi-con Corporation was established in 1931. The company contributed for the global development of aluminum electrolytic capacitors. Since 2003 the company has been producing supercapacitors and now it is one of the contenders for the market leadership in large supercapacitor applications.

Nisshinbo Industries is a company founded in 1907. It this is a 450 billion yen (3.7 usd billion dollar) conglomerate with a broad range of product portfolio covering from materials for electronics, automobile brakes, textiles, papers and other chemicals. This company profile is focused on the development of supercapacitor technology by the company.

TOC Capacitor Co., Ltd. manufactures electric double layer capacitor. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Okaya-shi, Japan. TOC Capacitor Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between TPR Co., Ltd. and Okaya Electric Industries Co., Ltd.TOC Capacitor Co. acquired Nisshinbo's supercapacitor technology in November 2014. This technology was used in Toyota's winner racing car TS040.

Simple things are being applied to reduce purchase price, increase resale price and extend range of electric cars

GS Yuasa International Ltd has completed initial development of a new advanced lithium secondary battery which has a "Sulfur - Porous Carbon Composite" positive electrode with 8 times higher capacity than that of conventional lithium ion battery, positive electrodes and a silicon based negative electrode with high capacity.

Scientists have created a hybrid sodium ion capacitor from peanut shells in a pioneering study bridging the gap between conventional ion batteries and supercapacitors.

Seeo, a leading developer of advanced lithium polymer batteries, has announced the closing of its largest funding round to date, and the addition of Samsung Ventures Investment Corporation as an investor.

Daimler AG is expanding the production capacities for lithium-ion batteries with investments of around 100 million Euros in the Deutsche ACCUmotive subsidiary in coming years.

Researchers have created flexible, patterned sheets of multilayer graphene from a cheap polymer by burning it with a computer-controlled laser.

Load bearing structures that are also electronic or electrical are called structural electronics. This two-for-the-price-of-one approach can be more reliable, attractive and long-lived and it always saves space.

A local Indian company has built an electric sports car, Super Nova Electric Vehicle, that can cover 1,000 kilometres with a single charge of its batteries and at the speed of some 150 kms per hour.

Structural electronics is one of the most important developments this century yet most people have never heard of it.

An efficient method to harvest low-grade waste heat as electricity may be possible using reversible ammonia batteries.

An efficient method to harvest low-grade waste heat as electricity may be possible using reversible ammonia batteries, according to engineers.