圣迭戈，2011年3月3日/新华美通/ - 麦克斯韦技术公司（纳斯达克：MXWL）今天宣布，它已经获得了来自美国先进电池联盟有限责任公司（USABC）的总值701万美元费用分摊技术发展合同，以开发电力辅助混合动力（PAHEVs）电动汽车的先进能源存储系统。 USABC将把总额大约350万美元付给麦克斯韦公司及其技术发展伙伴，其中超过280万美元直接提供给麦克斯韦公司。本项目为期24个月。
USABC是美国汽车研究理事会有限责任公司（USCAR）的下属企业，USCAR是克莱斯勒集团有限责任公司，福特汽车公司和通用汽车公司共同组建的汽车技术组织。USABC的资金来源于美国能源局，它的任务是发展电化学能量存储技术，以支持电动，混合动力和燃料电池汽车商业化。
麦克斯韦将率领一个小组开发和利用先进电容器技术生产能量储存系统，以满足USABC混合动力车电池的标准并把成本降到最低。这将需要比现有电容器系统技术在能源和功率密度的进步。
“更高的性能，降低成本，能源存储系统是必不可少的满足日益增长的全球更省油，低排放车辆的需求。”戴维施拉姆，麦克斯韦的总裁兼首席执行官说。 “该产品计划旨在通过电池技术的发展提高美国汽车制造商的竞争地位，使其能达到每年生产约6千万辆汽车的能力。”
SAN DIEGO, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL) announced today that it has been awarded a $7.01 million cost-shared technology development contract by the United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC) to develop an advanced energy storage system for power-assist hybrid electric vehicles (PAHEVs). USABC will provide more than $2.8 million directly to Maxwell and approximately $3.5 million in total, including payments to technology development partners, over the course of the 24-month program.
USABC is a subsidiary of the United States Council for Automotive Research LLC (USCAR), the collaborative automotive technology organization for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company. With funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, USABC's mission is to develop electrochemical energy storage technologies that support commercialization of electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles.
Maxwell will lead a team that is tasked with the development and integration of advanced capacitor technologies to produce an energy storage system that meets performance requirements outlined in the USABC Lower Energy-Energy Storage System specification for PHEVs while managing cost to the lowest possible level. This will require technology advances in energy and power density compared with existing capacitor systems. Maxwell will be responsible for capacitor technology development, module technology and design, electrode formulation and system integration. Development partners will provide low-cost, high performance separator membrane and electrolyte specifically developed for this program.
"Higher performance, lower cost, energy storage systems are essential to meeting growing worldwide demand for more fuel-efficient, lower emission vehicles," said David Schramm, Maxwell's president and chief executive officer. "The technical foundation of the product this program aims to develop can be instrumental in strengthening the American automakers' competitive position within a global auto industry that annually produces some 60 million cars."