Ultracapacitor users swap experiences

At its fifth annual Boostcap day, Maxwell Technologies showcased new ultracapacitor products and customer applications, with more than 100 delegates from 75 companies.

At its fifth annual Boostcap day, Maxwell Technologies showcased new ultracapacitor products and customer applications, with more than 100 delegates from 75 companies.

The main focus of the day was on customers presenting their real-life experience of ultracapacitors.

These included Diehl Luftfahrt Elektronik, Hydrogenics and ISE Corporation, with applications including energy storage for fuel cell and hybrid vehicles, fuel cell-powered forklifts, emergency power supply for aircraft doors, and bus, scooters, bikes and trolley bus transportation applications.

Michael Wilk, Electrical Engineer at ISE Corporation, presented a paper on his company's hybrid drive systems for transit buses.

Wilk said: "At Boostcap day 2005, I was able to discuss our experience, based on the 1.8 million kilometres in service of vehicles equipped with our ultracapacitor-based systems".

"We've found that the amount of energy recovered by the ultracapacitors is outstanding".

Dr Adrian Schneuwly, Maxwell's Worldwide Senior Director of Sales and Marketing, said that the customer presentations demonstrated that Maxwell's ultracapacitors have become a mainstream technology for energy storage and power delivery.

"At this event, we've seen our customers reporting on real applications and real experience of using ultracapacitors and demonstrating technically innovative and reliable solutions our products are delivering in the field", said Schneuwly.

"With our latest products delivering high performance at a low cost, we're seeing ultracapacitors becoming widely adopted across a variety of transportation, industrial and automotive applications".

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