Periodic Reporting for period 1 - C2C-NewCap (Towards a safe, reliable and cost competitive transport sector in Europe)
Période du rapport: 2017-05-01 au 2017-10-31
Due to its fuel efficient and low carbon technology characteristics, coupled with the competitive price and ease of installation, the C2C supercapacitors will contribute to a faster adoption by the owners of the trucks and buses and in this way contribute to major Global and EU challenges such as the decarbonisation of economy and the global climate goals. In what concerns particularly the EU, C2C will promote mobility that is efficient, safe, secure and environmentally friendly, by helping with some of the major European transport challenges, such as:
• oil dependency – despite improvements in energy efficiency, transport still depends on oil for 96% of its energy needs. Oil will become scarcer in future, increasingly sourced from unstable parts of the world. By 2050, the price is projected to more than double compared to 2005.
• greenhouse gas emissions – by 2050, the EU must cut transport emissions by 60% compared with 1990 levels, if we are to limit global warming to an increase of just 2ºC.
• competition – the EU’s transport sector faces growing competition from fast-developing transport markets in other regions.
C2C-NewCap removes this “pressure” from batteries, expanding their life cycle, cutting fuel use, air pollution and carbon emissions (5%-15%). When compared to the other existing commercialised supercapacitors C2C is safe to operate, easier to install, environmental friendliness, reliable and price competitive.
Battery replacement (or retrofitting) is a common procedure that every truck goes through during its lifetime. Moreover, for trucks currently in circulation there are no other forms on the market that are economical, and simultaneously solve the problem of dead batteries, allowing trucks and buses to reduce their CO2 emission levels and save fuel. The C2C supercapacitor is a low carbon and fuel efficient technology, with a reduced payback time.
C2C will be the only water based asymmetric Nickel carbon supercapacitor in the market, and due to the production costs reduction achieved by C2C this product can be offered at a highly competitive price, making it the economically viable alternative that the market was looking for.
This technology holds a large range of applications within Transport (Heavy and Medium Truck engine starting, hybrid traction, regenerative engine braking …), Energy (Pitch control, utility grid stability, frequency and peak shaving..) and Industry (UPS, Industrial vehicles) sectors.
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