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Panasonic view of the Tesla Gigafactory

Panasonic is a $70 billion giant with strongly rising profitability and a place in the first division of battery manufacturers greatly boosted by its acquisition of Sanyo. It has shipped over 180 billion batteries since 1931.

Universal Robots

Universal Robots was founded in 2005, with the aim to make robot technology accessible to small and medium size enterprises by developing smaller, more agile, and less expensive robots. They were acquired by Teradyne for $285m in 2015.

The maturing e-textiles value chain

Following the announcement of a formal partnership between Flex and MAS Holdings, IDTechEx Analyst James Hayward looks at the big picture of the developing e-textiles value chain. This article describes the differing strategies from various key players, examples of success from smaller innovators, and key pressure points which cause problems to this day.

Short radius trucks go pure electric

Pure electric short range trucks are rapidly becoming viable as they face much tougher local and global emissions regulations.

Tesla gigafactory in context

Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of analysts IDTechEx, was interviewed 27 July by BBC Television World News in a live program transmitted worldwide. The subject was the opening of the Tesla battery gigafactory billed as the world's largest factory building.

Magment

Magment is a German start-up that produces magnetisable concrete and asphalt that can be used to enable low-cost wireless charging of electric buses and autonomous vehicles.

Autonomous electric buses reinvented

There is a frenzy of investment by in fully autonomous cars, some without even a steering wheel, but it is almost entirely supplier push. Virtually no private individual is interested in buying one. It is very different with fleets such as taxis where potential corporate purchasers such as Uber see many benefits including cost and space saving

New autonomous unmanned surface vessels

To its manufacturer MOST (Autonomous Vessels) Ltd in the UK, USV means controlled by satellite from anywhere on the planet. AutoNaut is the answer to the age-old challenge of affordable oceanic data gathering for science, commerce and military purposes. It creates new opportunities to meet unique mission requirements in a changing world.

Webinar Tuesday 9 August - is the end of the TCF downturn in sight?

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 9 August 2016.

Who will win the battery gigafactory race?

Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of analysts IDTechEx, was interviewed on 27 July by BBC Television World News in a live program transmitted worldwide speaking on the new Tesla gigafactory.

Overcoming key challenge in using light for wireless communications

In an advance that could one day make light-based wireless communications ubiquitous, researchers have demonstrated a conceptually new approach for detecting optical communication signals traveling through the air.

The death of MakerBot is not the death of an industry

Following the progress of MakerBot, it is easy to be despondent about the whole desktop 3D printing industry.

Mexican whale sharks and electric vehicles

The pollution situation with large ships is appalling. The 15 largest ships in the world emit as much nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide as the world's 760 million cars.

Cambridge CMOS Sensors

IDTechEx interviewed Jess Brown, Sales & Marketing Director at Cambridge CMOS Sensors, following their acquisition by Austrian sensor company ams announced in June 2016.

Industrial and commercial electric vehicles: Biggest market

The saying is, "In a gold rush, get there first, sell shovels". The "shovels" of the EV business are covered in the unique new IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles on Land 2016-2026.

Voltstorage

Voltstorage is a Germany start-up developing vanadium redox flow batteries for the residential storage market.

Hino motors advances hybrid buses

Controlled by Toyota, Hino Motors of Japan is a $13 billion company making buses, trucks and pickups that is similar in size to competitor BYD in buses, cars, forklifts and batteries in China.

Webinar Tuesday 2 August - Supercapacitors Technology Development

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 2 August 2016 titled Supercapacitors Technology Development and Market Adoption 2016-2026

Ford plug-in vehicle behavior

Daniel Boston and Alyssa Werthman of Ford Motor Company, Dearborn MI have recently published a study "Plug-in Vehicle Behaviors: An analysis of charging and driving behaviour of Ford plug-in electric vehicles in the real world".

Conductive inks: big players forced to go niche

IDTechEx Research has been following and analysing the conductive inks and pastes market for many years. It finds that this $1.3bn* market is subject to major change with long-lasting consequences on the business models of many large incumbent suppliers.