With the stunning Mazda Takeri concept car due at the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show beginning Wednesday, the company will pioneer a piece of technology that improves the fuel economy of its cars by 10 percent ...

Innovative Vanair Super Capacitor works with a self-contained alternator on the unit to start the vehicle and recharge the capacitor instantaneously Vanair's Cap-Start 3000 features its innovative ...

While Toyota took out the Tokachi 24-Hour Race in 2007 with a Supra HV-R hybrid race car featuring a quick-charging supercapacitor-based regenerative braking system, battery storage has so far been ...

When it comes to storing energy, batteries aren’t always the ideal medium. While they typically discharge energy in predictable, linear fashion, batteries can be slow to charge and slow to discharge.

The new 42V standard for automotive electrical systems will be based on a 36V battery, with an alternator generating 42V to fully charge the battery. In contrast, today's 12V standard battery is ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan-Mazda Motor Corporation has developed the world's first passenger vehicle regenerative braking system that uses a capacitor. The groundbreaking system, which Mazda calls 'i-ELOOP', ...