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Supercapacitor / Ultracapacitor Interviews, Strategies, Road Map 2015-2025
Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors & Supercabatteries AEDLC: User & technology supplier interviews. Advances creating extra markets - map to 2025
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Traditionally, rechargeable batteries have been used as energy dense products and the other devices based on capacitors have been used as power dense products. There are more-power-dense versions of the favourite rechargeable batteries - lithium-ion with 70% or so of the rechargeable battery market in 2023. Unfortunately, power dense rechargeable batteries surrender a lot of energy density. It is therefore helpful that more and more energy dense supercapacitors and variants are becoming available, some even matching lead acid batteries and yet retaining excellent power density. This convergence of properties has led to the widespread combination of the two in parallel, particularly in power applications. Battery/supercapacitor combinations approach the performance of an ideal battery - something that can never be achieved with a battery alone because its chemical reactions cause movement, swelling and eventually irreversability. In some cases, things have gone further. For example, hybrid buses using supercapacitors now rarely use them across the traction battery - the supercapacitor replaces the battery, the only battery remaining in the vehicle being a small lead-acid starter battery.
Incidence of manufacturers of various types of supercapacitor and variant by operating principle
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Many more supercapacitor variants are now available. There is now almost a continuum of devices between conventional electrolytic capacitors and rechargeable batteries as we explain in the report. The analysis of 80 manufacturers and putative manufacturers reveals, for example, how battery manufacturers and conventional capacitor manufacturers are entering the business of devices intermediate between the two. However, rather surprisingly, most of the intermediate devices are developed and manufactured by companies not in either conventional capacitors or batteries. Although we use the term intermediate devices, some have some properties superior to both conventional capacitors and rechargeable batteries.
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| 1. | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS |
| 1.1. | Supercapacitors and batteries converge |
| 1.1. | Some of the options and some of the suppliers in the spectrum between conventional capacitors and rechargeable batteries with primary markets shown in yellow |
| 1.1. | Main achievements and objectives with supercapacitors and their derivatives by number of manufacturers and putative manufacturers involved |
| 1.1.1. | Supercapacitors and Li-ion Batteries are one business |
| 1.2. | Success by application and territory |
| 1.2. | 2014 output value forecast by manufacturer of supercapacitors and supercabatteries. |
| 1.2. | Examination of achievement and strategy in the most important applicational sectors. Number of manufacturers of supercapacitors and their variants that have that have supplied given sectors vs number that target them for future ex |
| 1.3. | Probable timeline for market adoption by sector and technical achievements driving the growth of the market for supercapacitors and their derivatives 2014-2025 with market value projections for supercapacitors, cost and performanc |
| 1.3. | Supercapacitor technology roadmap including lithium-ion capacitors (AEDLC) 2013-2024 |
| 1.3. | Technology road map 2015-2024 |
| 1.4. | The most important future technical advances commercially |
| 1.4. | The ten advances that will create the largest add-on markets for supercapacitors and their derivatives in order of importance in creating market value with examples of organisations leading the advance |
| 1.4. | Some of the main ways in which greater supercapacitor energy density is being sought by the route of increasing useful carbon area per unit volume or weight |
| 1.5. | The main functions that supercapacitors will perform over the coming decade |
| 1.5. | 15 examples of component displacement by supercapacitors in 2012-3 |
| 1.5. | Most are chasing area improvement |
| 1.6. | Even lower temperature |
| 1.6. | Supercapacitor functions reaching major market acceptance 2013-2023 with some of the companies leading the success by sector |
| 1.6. | Examples of the main functions performed by supercapacitors |
| 1.7. | Main functions performed by supercapacitors in electric vehicles |
| 1.7. | 80 manufacturers, putative manufacturers and commercial companies developing supercapacitors, supercabatteries and carbon-enhanced lead batteries for commercialisation with country, website and device technology. |
| 1.7. | Price and functional issues |
| 1.8. | Supercapacitors increase range of electric vehicles |
| 1.8. | The evolution from conventional to various types of electric vehicle related to supercapacitor applications in them today, where hybrids and pure electric versions are a primary target |
| 1.9. | Possible timeframe and technology for reaching the tipping point for sales of pure electric on-road cars |
| 1.9. | Supercapacitors in vehicles |
| 1.9.1. | Conventional vehicles |
| 1.9.2. | Electric vehicles |
| 1.10. | Incidence of the different technologies |
| 1.10. | The number of manufacturers and putative manufacturers of supercapacitors/supercabatteries by six sub-categories of technology |
| 1.10.1. | Incidence of manufacturers by operating principle |
| 1.10.2. | Incidence of current collector and active electrode types |
| 1.10.3. | Electrolytes |
| 1.11. | Achieving the impossible |
| 1.11. | Incidence of manufacturers of various types of supercapacitor and variant by operating principle |
| 1.12. | Component displacement mapped as a function of benefits relative to batteries conferred by supercapacitors |
| 1.12. | Manufacturers and putative manufacturers |
| 1.13. | New entrants |
| 1.13. | Estimate of the number of trading manufacturers of supercapacitors and supercabatteries globally 1993-2025 including timing of industry shakeout. |
| 1.14. | Supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries are now one business |
| 1.15. | Change of leadership of the global value market? |
| 1.16. | Supercapacitors grab the multibillion dollar electrolytic capacitor market |
| 1.17. | Planned strategies for 2015-2025 |
| 2. | INTRODUCTION |
| 2.1. | Types of capacitor |
| 2.2. | Symmetric supercapacitor EDLC left compared with asymmetric AEDLC ie supercabattery with battery-like cathode (ie part electrochemical in action) shown right. During charge and discharge, the voltage is nearly constant resulting i |
| 2.2. | Some of the pros and cons of supercapacitors |
| 2.3. | Symmetric supercapacitor EDLC compared with asymmetric AEDLC ie supercabattery with lithiated carbon anode (ie entirely electrostatic in action) shown right |
| 2.4. | Eight families of option and some of the suppliers in the spectrum between conventional capacitors and rechargeable batteries with primary markets shown in yellow |
| 3. | ADVANCES REQUIRED AND PROGRESS IDENTIFIED |
| 3.1. | Supercapacitors in vehicles |
| 3.1. | The main functions that supercapacitors will perform over the coming decade |
| 3.1. | Advances that will create the largest add-on markets for supercapacitors and their derivatives by value in order of importance with examples of organisations leading the advance. |
| 3.2. | Examples of component displacement by supercapacitors. |
| 3.2. | Examples of the main functions performed by supercapacitors. Those in black are currently only achieved with a flammable, carcinogenic electrolyte - acrylonitrile - but this will change |
| 3.2. | Ensuring that supercapacitors will replace more batteries |
| 3.3. | The evolution from conventional to various types of electric vehicle related to supercapacitor applications in them today, where hybrids and pure electric versions are a primary target. |
| 3.4. | Possible timeframe and technology for reaching the tipping point for sales of pure electric on-road cars |
| 3.5. | Component displacement mapped as a function of benefits relative to batteries conferred by supercapacitors |
| 3.6. | Siemens view in 2012 of the elements of Electrical Bus Rapid Transit eBRT, for example, mentioning U-Caps meaning supercapacitors |
| 4. | APPLICATIONS NOW AND IN THE FUTURE |
| 4.1. | Pulse Power |
| 4.1. | Examples of applications of the ULTIMO Cell |
| 4.1. | Supercapacitor functions reaching major market acceptance 2013-2023 with some of the companies leading the success by sector |
| 4.2. | Structural supercapacitor as flexible film. |
| 4.2. | Bridge Power |
| 4.3. | Main Power |
| 4.3. | Primary demand for energy storage for battery-like products in Europe in 2020, which will be satisfied by batteries, supercapacitors, intermediate products and combinations of these |
| 4.4. | East Penn Deca Ultra Battery in Honda hybrid car |
| 4.4. | Memory Backup |
| 4.4.1. | Evolution of commercially successful functions |
| 4.4.2. | Composite structural and smart skin supercapacitors for power storage |
| 4.5. | Heter Electronics supercapacitors from China |
| 4.5. | Manufacturer successes and strategies by application |
| 4.6. | Supercapacitors increase range of electric vehicles |
| 5. | SURVEY OF 80 MANUFACTURERS |
| 5.1. | Incidence of the different technologies |
| 5.1. | 80 manufacturers, putative manufacturers and commercial companies developing supercapacitors, supercabatteries and carbon-enhanced lead batteries for commercialisation with country, website and device technology. |
| 5.2. | Number of manufacturers offering the various supercapacitor technologies including derivatives, some companies having several options |
| 5.3. | Estimate of the number of trading manufacturers of supercapacitors and supercabatteries globally 1993-2025 including timing of industry shakeout. |
| 6. | ACHIEVEMENTS AND OBJECTIVES BY MANUFACTURER |
| 6.1. | By application, for Automotive, Aerospace, Military and Oil & Gas, the successes by 78 supercapacitor/supercabattery manufacturers in grey green and their targets for extra applications in the near term in yellow. Six sub categori |
| 6.2. | The successes in six categories in the Utility sector by 78 supercapacitor/supercabattery manufacturers in grey green and their targets for extra applications in the near term in yellow |
| 6.3. | The successes by 78 supercapacitor/supercabattery manufacturers in the Consumer and Industrial & Commercial beyond vehicles sectors in grey green and their targets for extra applications in the near term in yellow. Eight sub-categ |
| 7. | EXAMPLES OF PRE-COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS |
| 7.1. | Pre-commercial supercapacitor developers with their country, website, industrial partner, applications targeted |
| 8. | INTERVIEWS AND COMMENTARY ON COMPANY STRATEGY FOR SUPERCAPACITORS |
| 8.1. | Lessons from the IDTechEx Supercapacitors event California November 2014 |
| 8.1. | Supercapacitor focus for small wearable healthcare devices |
| 8.1.1. | Jostling for Leadership |
| 8.1.2. | Supercapacitors: What Construction? |
| 8.1.3. | Supercapacitors on the smaller scale |
| 8.2. | UltrabatteryTM for medium hybrid vehicles |
| 8.2. | Interviews with suppliers |
| 8.2.1. | Cap-XX Australia |
| 8.2.2. | Cellergy Israel |
| 8.2.3. | East Penn Manufacturing USA |
| 8.2.4. | Elton Super Capacitor Russian Federation |
| 8.2.5. | Furukawa Battery Co Ltd. Japan |
| 8.2.6. | Inmatech USA |
| 8.2.7. | Ioxus USA |
| 8.2.8. | JS Micro/ JS Radio/JM Energy Japan |
| 8.2.9. | Nanotune Technologies USA |
| 8.2.10. | NEC Tokin Japan |
| 8.2.11. | Nesscap Energy Inc Canada/Korea |
| 8.2.12. | Nichicon Japan |
| 8.2.13. | Nippon ChemiCon/ United ChemiCon Japan |
| 8.2.14. | Skeleton Technologies Estonia, Germany |
| 8.2.15. | Yo-Engineering Russian Federation |
| 8.2.16. | Yunasko Russian Federation |
| 8.3. | User interviews and inputs |
| 8.3. | Inmatech Innovations |
| 8.3.1. | Bombardier Canada |
| 8.3.2. | Hydrogenics Corporation USA |
| 8.3.3. | Honda Japan and Nippon Chemi-Con Japan |
| 8.3.4. | Komatsu Japan |
| 8.4. | Supercapacitor market and Inmatech |
| 8.4. | New Supercapacitor Advances in Japan Oct 2014 |
| 8.5. | Nichicon supercapacitor emphasis at EVS26 Los Angeles 2012 |
| 8.6. | Supercapacitor-based electric vehicle fast charging stations launched in 2012 by Nichicon. |
| 8.7. | Mazda car supercapacitor exhibited at EVS26 Los Angeles 2012 |
| 8.8. | Nippon Chemi-Con low resistance DXE Series priority shown in 2012 |
| 8.9. | Exhibit by United ChemiCon at EVS26 Los Angeles |
| 9. | DEVELOPER, MATERIALS SUPPLIER AND ACADEMIC INPUTS |
| 9.1. | Daikin Industries Japan |
| 9.1. | Daikin Industries display on fluorination of supercapacitor electrolytes |
| 9.2. | Extracts from Hutchinson presentation at eCarTec Munich October 2012 |
| 9.2. | Hutchinson (TOTAL) France |
| 9.3. | IFEVS Italy |
| 9.4. | Northeastern University USA |
| 9.5. | NYSERDA grants reveal trends of research |
| 9.6. | Tecate Group USA |
| 9.7. | Yuri Gogotski |
| 10. | COMPANY PROFILES |
| 10.1. | Aowei Technology |
| 10.1. | Elbit Systems |
| 10.2. | Cap-XX |
| 10.2. | ELTON |
| 10.3. | Cellergy |
| 10.3. | Hutchinson SA |
| 10.4. | Ioxus |
| 10.5. | Maxwell Technologies Inc |
| 10.6. | Nesscap Energy |
| 10.7. | Paper Battery Company |
| 10.8. | Saft Batteries |
| 10.9. | Skeleton Technologies |
| 10.10. | WIMA Spezialvertrieb elektronischer Bauelemente |
| 10.11. | Yunasko |
| APPENDIX 1: SUPERCAPACITOR FLASH CHARGING OF ABB BUS | |
| APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX RESEARCH REPORTS AND CONSULTANCY | |
| TABLES | |
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Report Statistics
| Pages | 220 |
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| Tables | 16 |
| Figures | 42 |
| Forecasts to | 2025 |