Elon Musk has commented on Tesla’s acquisition of Maxwell, an ultra-capacitor manufacturer and battery technology company, and shed some lights on the automaker’s plan for the company. When ...

Tesla has acquired energy storage company Maxwell Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at $218 million, a deal aimed at helping the electric automaker improve its batteries and lower costs as ...

Maxwell has been developing a dry electrode technology for use with lithium-ion batteries in cars. Management is optimistic it will have their technology in place on a car model by 2021 - 2022.

Maxwell Technologies has breakthrough dry battery electrode technology and ultracapacitors. Tesla has announced the purchase of Maxwell Technologies for $218 million in an all-stock deal. The Maxwell ...

The dry battery technology ramp is said to be to 300 Wh/kilogram (+45 percent) "demonstrated," Maxwell says, and then with a "path to 500 wH/Kg identified" (+142 percent or 2.4x the initial rating.) ...

The Maxwell battery is all about a manufacturing process. It can be used with existing chemistries like NMC and NCA. The new manufacturing process just allows Tesla/Maxwell to eliminate the time- ...

If Tesla wants to jump to 300 watt-hours of power per kilogram of battery material, it needs Maxwell's technology. Ultracapacitors are a nice addition to the portfolio.