This broad-ranging report on
supercapacitors and supercabatteries has up to date ten year forecasts
and analysis of market, applications, technology, patent and profit
trends and the manufacturers and researchers involved.
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55% of the manufacturers and intending
manufacturers of supercapacitors/supercabatteries (EDLC, AEDLC) are in
East Asia, 28% are in North America but Europe is fast asleep at only
7%. Yet, being used for an increasing number of purposes in electric
vehicles, mobile phones, energy harvesting, renewable energy and other
products of the future, this market is roaring up to over $11 billion in
ten years with considerable upside potential.
This report concerns Electrochemical
Double Layer Capacitors (EDLCs). For brevity, we mainly use the second
most popular word for them - supercapacitors. The third most popular
term for them - ultracapacitors - is often used in heavy electrical
applications. Included in the discussion and forecasts are so-called
Asymmetric Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (AEDLCs) better known
as supercabatteries.
The report also features patent trends
of supercapacitor technologies. This data is taken from a report
covering more details about the patent landscape for batteries; for full
details of that report please go to www.IDTechEx.com/patent .
Supercapacitors are a curiously
neglected aspect of electronics and electrical engineering with a
multi-billion dollar market rapidly emerging. For example, for land,
water and airborne electric vehicles, there are about 200 serious
traction motor manufacturers and 110 serious traction battery suppliers
compared to just a few supercapacitor manufacturers. In all, there are
no more than 66 significant supercapacitor manufacturers with most
concentrating on the easier small ones for consumer electronics such as
power backup. However, in a repetition of the situation with
rechargeable batteries, the largest part of the market has just become
the heavy end, notably for electric and conventional vehicles.
Supercapacitors and supercabatteries
mainly have properties intermediate between those of batteries and
traditional capacitors but they are being improved more rapidly than
either. That includes improvement in cost and results in them not just
being used to enhance batteries but even replacing batteries and
capacitors in an increasing number of applications from renewable energy
down to microscopic electronics. For example, your mobile phone may
have better sound and flash that works at ten times the distance because
a supercapacitor has taken over these functions from conventional
capacitors.
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Supercapacitors are replacing
batteries where such properties as excellent low temperature
performance, calendar and cycle life, fast charge-discharge and
reliability are more dominant issues than size and weight. Examples of
this include power backup opening bus doors in an emergency, working
hybrid car brakes when power goes down and keeping electronic circuits
running. Conventional trucks are having one to three of their lead acid
batteries replaced with drop-in supercapacitor alternatives that
guarantee starting in very cold weather, when lead acid batteries are
very poor performers.
The difference is dramatic - about 5%
energy loss occurs at minus 25 degrees centigrade, compared to a
battery's energy loss of more than 50%. Some pure electric buses even
run on supercapacitors alone recharging through the road every five
kilometres or so. Use of supercapacitors to protect batteries against
fast charge and discharge and from deep discharge means smaller
batteries are needed and they last longer, depressing battery demand and
increasing supercapacitor demand.
The bottom line is that almost
everywhere you see next generation electronic and power technology you
see supercapacitors and supercabatteries being fitted or planned because
of superior performance, cost-over-life and fit-and-forget.
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