Rick Sander, CEO and President of ISE, says, "Energy storage is at the core of any hybrid-powered vehicle. ISE is moving the transportation industry one step closer to zero emissions by downsizing engines, thereby reducing emissions and improving fuel economy and putting energy storage at the forefront to create a new hybrid energy paradigm." Since 1999, ISE has integrated its energy storage technology into its own hybrid drive systems. Now, the company is moving forward by standardizing its controls interface to allow other manufacturers to easily integrate ISE's energy storage technologies into their own applications.

Energy storage technologies built from the ground up

ISE's energy storage technologies have been primarily developed in the transit industry, a market application that provides an excellent platform enabling innovation through government subsidies that support the design of systems that can meet stringent standards in high duty cycle, rugged environments. ISE's investment into the continued development of its ultra-capacitor systems has resulted in a vast energy storage knowledge base, and enabled the company to widen its product set to include lithium power systems.

Regarding the company's lithium power systems, Rob Del Core, ISE's Director of Business Development Energy Storage Systems, says, "Recent sales of ISE's lithium power systems to Ashok-Leyland and Tata Motors in India are proving that our technologies are capable of addressing the latest challenges in energy storage in a viable, competitive way that meets the high volume demands of these manufacturers." ISE's power dense lithium energy storage product expands its line of energy storage product offerings to meet a variety of power and energy requirements for a range of duty cycles.

High-Quality Systems for Heavy-Duty Applications

One design benefit of ISE's latest energy storage offering is its environmentally sealed (IP67) and liquid-cooled format, which provides added integrity and allows vehicle integrators to mount the system anywhere, including underneath the bus or truck. ISE's modular cassette design is light weight and scalable, which simplifies and reduces manufacturing and maintenance costs.