Replacing Lead-Acid Batteries with Ultracapacitors

March 22, 2012 By

In a few more years ultracapacitors will become a mainstream technology, alongside with established electrochemical battery energy storage. This is one of conclusions of market study Ultracapacitor Market Forecast 2015-2020. Transport segment is forecast to benefit the most from rapidly advancing ultracapacitor technology. Replacing lead-acid batteries with ultrracapacitors may prove to become a burgeoning market opportunity in the very near future.

Supercapacitor Market

Lead–acid batteries, invented in the middle of the 19th century, are the oldest and still the most common type of rechargeable battery providing start/stop functionality in modern cars. Lead-acid batteries have a very low energy-to-weight ratio and a low energy-to-volume ratio, yet they are capable to supply high surge currents means that the cells maintain a relatively large power-to-weight ratio. Ultracapacitor technology, approaching performance of lead-acid batteries, has many advantages like longer lifecycle and fast charging/discharging. Ultracapacitors are unique in combining start/stop and regenerative braking functionalities in one device.

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. already supplies large cells to Continental AG, a global Tier 1 auto parts supplier, for a stop-start idle elimination system introduced by PSA Peugeot Citroen in Europe for the 2011 model year.

Acquisitions Indicate Continuing Growth of the U.S. Federal Cyber Security Market

March 5, 2012 By

“A recent acquisition of cyber security business HBGary by ManTech is another evidence of continuing growth of the U.S. Federal Cyber Security Market. As the last years have seen a number of acquisitions in the cyber security market. Large government IT contractors, like General Dynamics, Lockheed and ManTech, have been on shopping spree after small cyber security technology companies for the last three years”, said the lead analyst of Market Research Media Ltd in his presentation at the cyber security workshop that took place on March, 1 – 2, 2012 in Arlington, VA. The workshop has been organized by CyberSecurityMarket.com and sponsored by Market Research Media.

The following questions were the focus of the workshop:

  • What segments of the U.S. Government Cyber Security market are poised for fast growth?
  • What are the largest segments of the U.S. Government Cyber Security?
  • What are key trends in Cyber Security technology deployment?
  • What are market opportunities in providing Cyber Security solutions for the Government sector?
  • What is the market hierarchy in the complicated web of the Federal Cyber Security market?

More information on how to penetrate the lucrative federal cyber security market can be found below:

The Renewable Energy Paradox

March 3, 2012 By
Biofuel market

Warren Buffet once said that investors into airline business “would have been far better if Orville had failed to get off the ground”. Historically two industries, airlines and automobiles, have been in red for about a century, despite the huge amounts of equity capital that investors had ploughed in them. The more growth, the worse [...]

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FBI Director: Cyber Threat Will Pose The Number One Threat

March 2, 2012 By

FBI Director Robert Mueller said in his speech of March 1, 2012, at the RSA Cyber Security Conference: “in the not too distant future, we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the number one threat to our country”. In response to ever-growing cyber threat the U.S. government is increasing cyber security investments to protect [...]

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Growing Demand for Ultracapacitors

March 1, 2012 By

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. is launchng a new ultracapacitor electrode production facility that will double the company’s current electrode capacity by year end, and is increasing internal and outsourced assembly capabilities to ensure that it can meet rapidly increasing worldwide demand for ultracapacitor products. In 2011, Maxwell and an assembly partner built and shipped more than [...]

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IBM Reaches Milestone in Bringing Closer Full-Scale Quantum Computer

February 28, 2012 By
Quantum Computing Market

Scientists at IBM Research have reached an important milestone in quantum computing device performance that may accelerate implementation of a commercial, full-scale quantum computer. IBM scientists have succeeded in reducing errors in elementary computations and retaining the integrity of quantum mechanical properties in quantum bits (qubits) – the basic units that carry information within quantum [...]

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