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Three breakthroughs have transformed the prospects of supercapacitors. Only the new IDTechEx report, "Supercapacitor Markets, Technology Roadmap, Opportunities 2021-2041" reveals how supercapacitors could eventually replace 10% of lithium-ion batteries and kill lead-acid. Understand commercially two market-changing supercapacitor technologies newly selling. Markets for new formats impractical with batteries.
Firstly, ones of around 50Wh have been shown to greatly enhance 48V hybrid cars so they can fit electrical accessories usually only possible on pure electric cars. Geely has made a huge commitment to install these supercapacitors. This new addressable market is multi-billion dollars yearly.
Variants lithium-ion capacitors have been sharply improved from unexciting small ones with three times the energy density to hugely attractive large ones with 15 times the energy packed in newly selling for minigrids, trains, trams, trucks, heavy off-road vehicles, uninterruptable power supplies for hospitals, data centres and much more. Here come safer urban buses charging in 20 seconds without extra charging stops, no energy storage replacement during life, no disposal issues at end of life. The third breakthrough is the plethora of new forms of supercapacitor resulting in such things as a self-healing car with supercapacitor bodywork and a wearable sensor film with supercapacitor backing that stretches to fit and can be cut to size.
"Supercapacitor Markets, Technology Roadmap, Opportunities 2021-2041" is the only post COVID-19 report on all the markets matched to the technology roadmap and uniquely forecasting 20 years ahead by eight application sectors and geography matched to future technology and market disruptions such as peak car. The Executive Summary and Conclusions is sufficient for those with limited time: its 37 pages are mostly infograms, forecasts, comparisons of sales breakthroughs and 23 primary conclusions. Understand markets with ongoing growth and those that will peak, good and bad investments. Value market by application and global region and top ten manufacturers are listed with their sales, total number of manufacturers by region and trend, impact of COVID-19 and coming impact of peak car, plus off-road, train, energy, medical and other markets.
The introduction explains supercapacitors and their derivatives with advantages and impediments forecasting changes. Tables compare emerging parameters with capacitors and batteries, where the research emphasis is poorly matched to market potential and the 20 year legacy of COVID-19 on the car market.
Chapter 3 has also never been done before. All 80 supercapacitor manufacturers are appraised, good and bad, in ten columns over 53 densely packed pages based on global visits, interviews, original photographs, and much original data. See split by country, capacitor size, technologies, time, where China is leading/ lagging progress in technology or application, what is high margin, what is commoditised.
Chapter 4 reveals "Supercapacitors in Aerospace and Military Applications" from rail guns to laser ordnance, air surveillance, deep space and aircraft. Those with large sales or breakthrough products get special attention such as Evans Capacitor with a recent $7 million order and unique virtuosity. Chapter 5 does the same for "Supercapacitors in On- and Off-road Vehicles and Rail Systems" including mining, logistics and other vehicles and cranes adopting large capacitor banks for power surges in and out. Chapter 6 covers "Supercapacitors in the Energy Sector". Latest advances revealed include supercapacitor tidal, wave and airborne wind energy harvesting, ocean platform surge absorption, large uninterruptible power supplies newly favouring supercapacitors. The report ends with three appendices giving important research chosen in the European Union, Japan and New Zealand.
Supercapacitor improvement and market roll-out is now moving fast, with major advances and disruptions coming in the next twenty years. That analysis is only available in the new IDTechEx report, "Supercapacitor Markets, Technology Roadmap, Opportunities 2021-2041".
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