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Maxwell Technologies reports that it has more than doubled its ultracapacitor production capacity over the past year and is moving forward with its plans to increase output of its Boostcap line of ultracapacitors. To date, Maxwell has pumped out more than 15 million ultracaps, says David Schramm, the firm’s president and chief executive officer, adding that “ultracapacitor sales having grown by more than 50 percent in each of the past two years and our expectation for continuing rapid growth going forward, we need to make sure we stay a step ahead of demand.”
Maxwell Technologies touts its Boostcap line by saying that, unlike batteries, which produce and store energy by means of a chemical reaction, ultracapacitors store energy in an electric field. This electrostatic energy storage mechanism enables ultracapacitors to charge and discharge in fractions of a second, perform in a wide range of temperatures range and remain fully operational after a million charge/discharge cycles. Maxwell Technologies’ capacitors can be found in hybrid transit buses across the globe and in Continental’s stop-start system introduced last fall by PSA Peugeot-Citroen.
[Source: Maxwell Technologies]
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