Overall, 2014 is expected to be a great year for the supercapacitor industry. Based on 2013 industry results, IDTechEx confirms its outlook for a 30% CAGR in the next 10 years. The supercapacitor market will reach a value of $6 billion in 2024.
In the larger application segments such as transportation, the supercapacitor market leader Maxwell Technologies increased its supercapacitor sales revenue by 42% in 2013 (vs 2012). The company now has a constant source of revenue in the automotive segment, mostly through the sales of supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. per unit volume than other types. Valuable for high-current and low frequencyThe number of complete cycles or vibrations per unit of time. Rate of alternation in an AC current. Expressed in cycles per second or hertz (Hz). electrical circuits, power supply filters, etc. Applications are similar to those of rechargeable batteries. for stop stop-start systems to PSA Peugeot Citroen through the Tier1 supplier Continental, and is aiming to increase its market penetration in the following years. It is worth mentioning that the Peugeot 308 with a supercapacitor based stop-start system was selected as the European Car of the Year 2014.
IDTechEx estimates the value of this market at $2.4 billion in 2024 and Maxwell Technologies is not the only company pursuing this potential. Incumbent players include Cap-XX, Nisshinbo, Hutchinson (Total Group), Ioxus, Yunasko and Armor Group among others. Let’s not forget that in 2013 the automotive industry finally recovered from the economic crisis. Many supercapacitor companies have announced the interest of multiple parties from the global automotive industry in their large prismatic supercapacitor.
Standardisation processes are running in parallel, an example of this was the Chrysler/SAE presentation, at IDTechEx’s SupercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. per unit volume than other types. Valuable for high-current and low frequencyThe number of complete cycles or vibrations per unit of time. Rate of alternation in an AC current. Expressed in cycles per second or hertz (Hz). electrical circuits, power supply filters, etc. Applications are similar to those of rechargeable batteries. USA 2013 conference, about their leading work in the standardisation process of supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. per unit volume than other types. Valuable for high-current and low frequencyThe number of complete cycles or vibrations per unit of time. Rate of alternation in an AC current. Expressed in cycles per second or hertz (Hz). electrical circuits, power supply filters, etc. Applications are similar to those of rechargeable batteries. for the automotive sector. This was part of IDTechEx’s SupercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is expressed as the ratio of a quantity of electricity to a potential difference. A capacitance value is always positive. per unit volume than other types. Valuable for high-current and low frequencyThe number of complete cycles or vibrations per unit of time. Rate of alternation in an AC current. Expressed in cycles per second or hertz (Hz). electrical circuits, power supply filters, etc. Applications are similar to those of rechargeable batteries. USA 2013 conference in California in November 2013.
Toyota Motorsport revealed in late January 2014, the details of its participation in the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship, in which they stated that they will push the limits of hybrid powertrain technology. Back in 2012 the TS030 Hybrid established Toyota Racing as a pioneer in the field of hybrid powertrains for motorsport. The car featured a Kinetic Energy Recovery System to chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See CoulombA coulomb is the unit of electric charge. It is named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.1 coulomb is the amount of electric charge transported by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second. It can also be defined in terms of capacitance and voltage, where one coulomb is defined as one farad of capacitance times one volt of electric potential difference.. a Nisshinbo supercapacitor, the extra power being directed to the rear wheels. Now its successor, the TS040 Hybrid, takes the technology to the next level. Along with its predecessor, the TS040 Hybrid will continue to use a V8 engine and at the core of the system a Nisshinbo supercapacitor mounted on the rear axle, however this year the car will benefit from a four-wheel drive hybrid system using their proven super-capacitor storage solution which will provide a substantial acceleration boost. IDTechEx has heard that this system may include a second supercapacitor, however this is not official news.
