article thumbnail

Skeleton Technologies raises €9.8 million; ramping up production of graphene-based ultracapacitors

Green Car Congress

Skeleton Technologies plans to use the funds for ramping up production of their graphene-based ultracapacitors to meet the strong demand for electrical engineering applications from a growing customer base, including hybrid truck manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers and grid-scale energy storage companies.

Estonia 150
article thumbnail

Skeleton Technologies receives US patent for nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material; higher energy and power densities and lower cost

Green Car Congress

Skeleton Technologies , an energy-storage start-up located in Tartu, Estonia, was recently awarded a US patent ( #7,803,345 ) on its nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material. The patented material has also shown superior characteristics in molecular sieving, hydrogen storage and in electroactive devices, Skeleton says.

Carbon 353
article thumbnail

2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid EnerVenue’s nickel-hydrogen battery cells are 1.8 Number one? Heat pumps.

Fusion 79