{"id":103538,"date":"2020-03-10T03:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T10:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/high-density-hybrid-powercapacitors-a-new-frontier-in-the-energy-race"},"modified":"2020-03-10T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T10:02:34","slug":"high-density-hybrid-powercapacitors-a-new-frontier-in-the-energy-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/high-density-hybrid-powercapacitors-a-new-frontier-in-the-energy-race","title":{"rendered":"High-density hybrid powercapacitors: A new frontier in the energy race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-density-hybrid-powercapacitors-a-new-frontier-in-the-energy-race3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hybrid \u201cpower capacitors\u201d that can store as much energy as lithium batteries, but with much higher charge\/discharge rates, a huge range of safe operating temperatures, super-long lifespans and no risk of explosion are already in production, says a small Belgian company that\u2019s been testing them and selling them for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese family-owned company Shenzhen Toomen New Energy is tough to find, at least on the English-language internet, but Belgian electronic engineer Eric Verhulst bumped into Toomen representatives on a tiny stand at the Hannover Messe expo in Germany back in 2018, while looking for next-gen battery solutions for an electric mobility startup he was running.<\/p>\n<p>The Toomen team made a hell of a claim, saying they\u2019d managed to manufacture powerful supercapacitors with the energy density of lithium batteries. \u201cOf course, that\u2019s an unbelievable claim,\u201d Verhulst told us. \u201cIt\u2019s a factor of 20 better than what, for example, Maxwell had at the time. So I took my time, went over there, looked at their tests, did some tests myself, and I got convinced this is real. So at the end of 2018, we made an agreement to become their exclusive partner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid \u201cpower capacitors\u201d that can store as much energy as lithium batteries, but with much higher charge\/discharge rates, a huge range of safe operating temperatures, super-long lifespans and no risk of explosion are already in production, says a small Belgian company that\u2019s been testing them and selling them for some time. Chinese family-owned company Shenzhen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}