The group's principal activities include commercialization and marketing of patented energy technologies with global applications and its principal products include advanced battery charging technology. The unique and proprietary AccelRate technology can be used with lead-acid, nickel metal hydride (NiMh), nickel cadmium (NiCd), lithium ion (Li-Ion) and other specialty batteries powering equipment large and small, from cell phones to electric vehicles. AccelRate and Hawker Powersource Inc. have signed a license agreement for the manufacturing and marketing of battery chargers throughout North America, incorporating AccelRate's patented technology. The Hawker brand-name of industrial batteries is among the world's largest. The company is a Canadian publicly traded company with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia and its laboratory in neighbouring Burnaby, BC.