Skeleton Ultra Capacitors | Fully Charged

May 01, 2020

Oh, and welcome to another episode of Fully Charged, this time coming from Tallinn in Estonia, an incredible country. If you get the chance to come and see it, we were brought here by the European Investment Bank, which is great that we've had this. opportunity and we're getting to see a company that's creating

ultra

capacitors

, but they're doing it in a country that really has the most notable history of tech startups of technological innovation and creativity, starting from a really low starting point at the end of the Soviet era. In the early 1990s they have become one of the leading technological countries in the world where Skype was invented in Estonia.

I've come here to find out what

ultra

capacitors

are and I really hope I'm kind of in the right place so tabby, first of all, thank you very much for inviting us to come and see what you're doing, it was very impressive, but what I really What I want to do is go back to kind of super basic ultracapacitors 101 for the Complete Newbie Lee if you look at altar capacitors when they are fast energy storage components, whereas Panther is a slow energy storage component because if you take out a capacitor, it takes 2 to 3 seconds to

fully

recharge the alternative capacitor, secondly, all capacitors have 1 million.

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Deep charge/discharge cycles, we all know what happens if you look at Tesla batteries, for example, Cafe Denim, you see what Panasonic makes, it's 3000 to 5000 cycles, so that's new, charge it, then drain them and yeah , you do that between 3 and 5 thousand. times yes and we have all the capacitors you can do it 1 million times million times and we have done it in real life even for 1 million cycles and you know the key is that all the capacitors are not Silver Bullet because the total The content The amount of energy in all the capacitors is less than in the batteries, which means that you can get the energy very quickly, like braking energy, and this is a perfect application because you don't brake for an hour, your braking cycle normally lasts about 5 seconds and the same. now it's about acceleration, if you look at all the capacitors, they may not actually compete with batteries, but what is most widely used in the industry is the combination because now you have this maximum power device, all the capacitors They cooperate with the braking energy you use. for acceleration, but you can reduce the size of the battery because you don't need to oversize it to get maximum power and we have seen that in terms of initial cost, which leads to more than a 10 percent reduction in cost, secondly, the high efficiency because you take the maximum charges without a capacitor and, thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, it can increase the battery life up to 2 times because what kills the life of the battery is these types of high powers peaks and overheating and, by the way, all the condenser risks, but if you look at The All Gasoline Technology Roadmap when we look at the VAT in five to seven years, almost all new vehicles will have a battery pack of Lithium ion for long rich driving and all capacitor pack for fast charging and advanced charging when you can get it in few. tens of seconds the initial 50 kilometers of autonomy because if you remove the last barrier to entry of fast charging when we not only go to the passenger vehicle market but, for example, if we look at buses, drugs, even equipment industrialists, two weeks ago I was in Paris and if you go to Shawn just say that when in reality you have buses that have altered the passengers on board and also disturb the capacitors in the charging station and this is already happening in real life, yes We go from China to Shanghai, you already have these types of systems on the way, but in our case what was really important in terms of scaling was also the political impulse for the European Investment Bank because what we manage here is to tolerate a significant amount of private equity and the fact that we could leverage it with VIP support. allowed us to start two factories in Estonia and Germany increased the workforce and, more importantly, increased or impacted in terms of revenue in terms of signed clients because now one of the things that fascinates me is that I have heard a lot about this but not being sure what graphene is because you say you're using the code is that the curved graphene materials on the right are the exact description and now if you look at our material it's a graphene composite material and that allows us to actually achieve the advantage of price, we have developed a scalable composite material that we have already tested today and I think the most important thing is that we have satisfied customers who see what this technology gives them from a performance perspective but also from a value perspective.

Oryx, the boost they need when I look at the power consumption on my Tesla, you get that graph that shows you know you're speeding up your jargon and if you could cut the top of that peak off the fact that it was an ultracapacitor that had taken the energy from the breakage and had used it to accelerate. So you can see that it would go further on a charge, so to speak, because that takes a lot of the capacity out of the battery as it is now, yes, exactly. And we can always make a good comparison if we talk about all the capacities, but if we look at the batteries, probably if we are Mayans, when we are famous marathon runners, they are fatter, but they work for two hours, we have very good resistance, very good. technology now all the capacitors are like Usain Bolt we have the maximum power because in ten seconds no one in the world can beat us, yes, but when you ask him to say matter to start running a marathon, he will not be so happy with that and a te all capabilities, so we are essentially complementary technologies, so what is it?

These strips will then be cut and then rolled up yeah that's what's inside yeah so the magic is actually on top of this foil so that's what That's the curved caffeine and Kiva is in packaged turkeys with electrodes, but you want to have the best density, but you can't press them too hard because otherwise you'll lose the surface area, so it's always a balancing act that you have to do. apply force, but you also have to be careful about it, so at this stage, the material that we saw cut there is now curling up. I'm understanding it now.

It's really lovely to see this glasses machine so combine the two layers together by rolling them yellow for the sake of mister errors by graphene electrode and plus and minus separated with our guy on the separator on the right and basically this forms something so like the chemical package which is then packed into a cell and goes through the vacuum environment, we take the electrochemical package, then press it, make the necessary image and actually a very precise laser welding process is taking place , because what was happening in there and what is critical here is that the laser welding has to be as strong as possible, but at the same time you have to make sure that you don't pass the electrochemical package too badly, so from a quality perspective , here we invested in, let's say, properly gluing customer equipment and I think the investment has paid off.

It turns off and after this we enter a vacuum environment so that the teeth suck at high temperatures because the natural enemy of ultracapacitors is water and all the moisture must be removed. Aren't we all immersed in this room? Yes, capacity in them, yes, basically. Here we have a 16 vacuum environment and the reason you see this is because it's the pumping to recover that tip here, so it's inside this cabinet, yeah, and basically when the cabinet with me to the gas station where I add the electrolyte and after you have added the electrolyte you move on to the final soldering, so as you can see we actually have three different soldering steps, but this is to be safe, but everything is as reliable as possible, but then these are These standard size modules, that's really the only size, you can actually make five different sizes, so you'll see there are different sizes.

This is the right bestseller for some customers, such as space products, we make even very specific products. The same applies to the motorsports industry, but this. In the example, it passes medicines, but also clean and renewable, windmills, industrial equipment, ports, grains and the base point is a universal component and now the difference comes in the value of the level of the module when placed on a level platform 10 kilometers from here, we have one. of the largest container terminals in the Baltic Sea and at the container terminal we have achieved 30 percent fuel savings because as we lower the containers, gravity does the work for you and you can take the energy and use it to lift , so that's one way to do it. capacitors help, so what are we looking at?

So these are some of those that go along with the sensor in a package and this is what goes on a bus, yeah, right, this is a bus ultracapacitor, yeah, my goodness, because I had no idea what. was going to happen, so there's a huge amount of electricity going through those wires, yes, causing an early electromagnetic repulsion effect. Wow, that's amazing. Can you give me an idea of how much energy was coming out of there at that point? You can take up to 100 kilowatts of this fact with a 100 kilowatt weight, yes, we have a way to offer ten kilograms, okay.

Wow, yeah, to put that into perspective, like a battery, you'd have to choose our car to get 100 kilowatts of lithium ion batteries, you need something much larger than that, but you'd need something that's minimal even at the most powerful. tall, but make it 10 times bigger than this, so tabby, this has this is a big black box. with

skeleton

technologies written into it, what's inside, inside us, we have all the positive aspects of the taiga, but we started with those kind of welded packages, so they are the same ones that we saw built, yeah, that's the same building block, and now here what we have done.

We've built a completely lightweight system and a complete system solution and out of this case we can get the maximum power of one point five megawatts if it was one point five megawatts of that size because I'm still stuck on a lithium ion battery. earth where 1.5 megawatts would be huge, yes we are with a guy, the impediments will leave you in mind, but since we would be talking about the full container, yes, we always say that we are not in the kilowatt hour business, no, but that It's for batteries, but we're in the megawatt second business, so they're going to have the smallest footprint and the lowest cost per megawatt second and I think the innovation that we've brought to the market here is not just the performance of the components, but the fact that it's the first completely plug-and-play solution and if you look at this specific product here, when it actually goes to I love egg, we're all Scotland, Scotland, yeah, and I love gas, as we know, He was one of the first. islands opt for totally renewable energy.

What is the problem? It's just that we don't think as much about the peak power requirements because the power loads are not static and now all the capacitors are going to be used to smooth out these spikes because right now the oil and we are experiencing at least scrapped situations so are they better quality of energy? All capacitors are better at doing the job and I think I love the egg, it actually gives us a good indication of what's to come in the UK but more widely in Europe because they are now into renewable energy and basically as a testing ground , we see that okay, it's not just long-term energy storage, but it's actually this kind of transient energy when you move from one energy source to another and where all the capacitors basically fill that. the gap, yes, and what we see is that similar types of solutions, whether for children on the island or even on the mainland UK, will be quite widespread in the next five years, so this is another application and I'm getting for a vehicle this bisko, which goes into a vehicle and actually this is the construction clock for the kinetic energy recovery system, but in the urban delivery trucks we have achieved a 30% reduction in the fuel bill just when Cooper got to ten and she made the entire capacitor pack and reused it while accelerating.

Okay, and now this module, as you can see, is very sturdy. You can run a tank. Good. I don't have to, but you can assess that it's solid. It doesn't seem to wobble. It is very solid in the fall. The Soviet empire in 1991, Estonia gained its independence, less than half of the residents of this amazing country had anything that could be called a telephone line, they could only talk to each other, they could not talk outside the country, the only person who had telephone link to the outside world was the Estonian Foreign Minister whoHe had hidden a Finnish mobile phone hidden in his garden.

There was a telephone and what happened next was that Finland said we are going to upgrade our fixed telephone network to a digital telephone network. I want our old analog phone system, you know they were going to give it away, donate it to the people of Estonia. People understand that you said no thanks, we don't want old, garbage technology, we'll do it all the way, so they literally jumped. They have the fastest broadband connection, the cheapest, the most ubiquitous broadband throughout Europe. They have an incredible tech startup scene. There are more startups per capita in Estonia than anywhere else in Europe.

It really is an extraordinary country that has done incredible things. I had vaguely heard that Skype wasn't invented in California or Seattle or somewhere in Estonia, it was invented this is where Skype was first founded, where they started they were way ahead of everyone else in their technological capabilities and that's saying a lot. Part of it must be due to the Estonian education system, they are very strongly based on science and although we are in this old part of the city of Tallinn, which is very beautiful, many tourists come here in the summer, you know, the rest of the country is very , very up to date in terms of how they pay taxes, they have a flat tax rate and you can fill out your tax form online on your tablet or phone in about two minutes.

Many people have told me this: you have a digital identity and you don't. you have a passport, you have a special series of numbers that are a digital code that you are given when you are born and that is your official state identity, so they have just jumped, they have advanced to such a remarkable degree. They are so far ahead of the rest of us it's amazing, it's really embarrassing for everyone else. I still have a paper passport, so in the 20th century, in the year 2000, the Estonian government declared that access to the Internet was a basic human right in the same way as food, shelter and protection under the law, I mean to the first country in the world to do that and now they vote online, you pay taxes online, you have a digital signature that is legally acceptable, you have your own unique identification code, you know it's amazing and they have made a deal with Finland where , although I say it is the only country they work with, you can go to Finland if you are Estonian and all your medical records are available there, you have a digital identity in Estonia as long as you look for traffic coming, but here we go, they are very friendly drivers In fact, in Estonia they don't try to take you home if you walk in the middle of the street, they are very tolerant.

I mean what when we came. Upon landing at the airport I saw a large wind farm on the coast, but that is the only one so far, so they are very aware that their infrastructure is still, as you can see, all or still quite old. Their physical infrastructure that they have. "It's not really modernized, it's not an ideal country for Lacaze, they are very far north. You know, it's mid-April and it's about five degrees. I just heard that one day in June, a couple of years ago, in the middle of summer, it was four degrees, so it is not what we call a hot and sunny country, long and very harsh winters, it is indeed a Scandinavian country, so you know it is the most extraordinary place, so if you have the opportunity to come, I would really say go for it because it's an amazing place to visit really lovely people, they all speak English of course because they're all incredibly well educated and you know it's an amazing place to come to but it's been a real pleasure to come here and see we just looked at one startup there are thousands and what they're doing is amazing and you know it's potentially going to change the world so you know a really exciting payout anyway that's a little bit less Stonier, a little bit of history of Estonia for you, there is a lot more that you know if you are interested, you can discover a lot more because there is a lot more that I haven't told you about the amazing history that they have anyway, that's enough so thank you very much.

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