Energy Storage

Terradigm Technology is working with corporate partners to launch innovative green products that generate power through natural kinetic motion - an industry first.

Ioxus is one of only two companies worldwide with hybrid capacitor technology in general production

At IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2010 Powercast Corporation, a leader in RF-based wireless power and energy harvesting technology, announced its Lifetime Power® Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Battery Charging.

Taiyo Yuden's Hybrid LIC boasts the key features of batteries (high voltage and high energy) while maintaining the traditional characteristics of capacitors (rapid charge/discharge, high durability, safety and environmental friendliness).

The major growth in electric buses is in free running versions which cost $50,000 to $500,000 and can usually be deployed without infrastructure along the route. The larger electric buses tend to be hybrid to get the range: smaller ones tend to be pure electric. The IDTechEx report, "Electric Vehicles 2010-2020" estimates that there are about 480,000 buses in the world - mostly small ones - with about 135,000 being bought each year as the fleets grow. Although only 12% of these new buses are electric, penetration is increasing and there is a multibillion dollar market awaiting.

At the unique event Future of Electric Vehicles 7-8 December in San Jose California , the market for all electric vehicles in the world and specifically East Asia will be forecasted by type.

Today's consumer electronics are reliant on lithium-ion batteries, but new DARPA-funded research hopes to develop tiny batteries, no bigger than a grain of sand.

Eduard Karpov, University of Illinois at Chicago assistant professor of civil and materials engineering, has received a three-year, $217,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new battery he is calling a catalothermionic generator.

TPL Inc has announced that the patented EnerPak™ energy harvesting power management systems have successfully completed two years of field-testing.

GreenPeak's unique ultra low power synchronization technique allows both applications to operate with a minimal impact on battery life thereby allowing the remote control battery life to last more than ten years.

Scientists have reported progress in using a common virus to develop improved materials for high-performance, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that could be woven into clothing to power portable electronic devices.

Research team develops ultra high-power energy storage devices

A team of researchers from the U.S. and France report the development of a micro-supercapacitor with remarkable properties. These micro-supercapacitors have the potential to power nomad electronics, wireless sensor networks, biomedical implants, active radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags and embedded microsensors, among other devices.

The term micro hybrid is not familiar to the general public but a high proportion of next year's cars will be micro hybrids.

Germany is the strongest trading nation in Europe with the broadest and deepest automotive activity. However, the strategy of the German government and its automotive industry has been deeply flawed.

Japan's Brother Industries has developed vibration-powered generators that could replace AA and AAA batteries.

Energy harvesting calls for collecting light energy from solar or photovoltaic cells, piezoelectric from pressure, kinetic energy from movement, or inductive energy from rotation or motion. This is what generates the low levels of current that make wireless sensors operational, and capturing and storing sufficient power for these applications is a challenge.