Diesel vehicles land, water and air, are on the way out because they emit poisons. However, the new electronics and electrics in and on vehicles appearing over the next ten years will contain most those poisons and add more.
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Zipline's mission is to bring life-saving medicine to the most difficult to reach places on the planet. The company operates the world's first and only national scale drone delivery system, making thousands of deliveries per year. Zipline's newest generation of autonomous aircraft flies farther, faster and with more cargo than was ever before possible— even in high altitude, heavy wind, or rain.
EXOMO is a collaboration between Aeronature, the first electric paramotor school, and Aero Composites Saintonge, the aeronautics specialist of electric propulsion and maker of the E-Fan demonstrator for the Airbus Group.
MAN is now selling a fully electric van, another step forwards in the direction of zero-emission metropolitan areas. Providing a range of up to 160 kilometres and a payload of 950 to 1,700 kilo-grams, the electric MAN TGE is ideally equipped depending on the type approval (3.5 or 4.25 tonnes).
When it comes to the special sauce of batteries, researchers have discovered it's all about the salt concentration. By getting the right amount of salt, right where they want it, they've demonstrated a small lithium-metal battery can re-charge about seven times more than batteries with conventional electrolytes.
The classic Mini Electric combines the historic look of the world's favorite small car with groundbreaking drive technology for tomorrow's urban mobility.
This is part 2 in a three part series where IDTechEx analysts explore their findings from AABC 2018.
A new approach to analyzing and designing new ion conductors — a key component of rechargeable batteries — could accelerate the development of high-energy lithium batteries, and possibly other energy storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say.
