Full profile interview
10 Jul 2024

Subaru
Through 2023 and 2024 Subaru has been through a series of management changes. A key part of the change is a new focus and more ambitious plan for electric vehicles. This profile looks at Subaru's current product portfolio and technologies and evaluates its renewed electrification plans.
Full profile interview: SWOT
3 Jul 2024

Renault
Full profile interview
27 Jun 2024

Mitsubishi Motors
Mitsubishi is the sixth-largest Japanese automotive OEM and 19th largest in the world. This company profile highlights Mitsubishi's key activities around electrification and autonomous driving and benchmarks the company against its peers.
13 Jun 2024

The Emerging Adoption and Future Trends of SiC and GaN in EVs
In 2008, the commercialization of the silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET marked a major turning point for the power semiconductor market, representing its first significant development in decades. This technology was pioneered in electric vehicles (EVs) with the 2017 Tesla Model 3. The SiC MOSFET is a transistor that promises high power density, greater efficiency, and is less fallible to high temperatures.
15 May 2024

Why Electric CAM Machines Need Diverse Battery Options
Construction, agriculture, and mining (CAM) machine OEMs have recently started their electrification journey. Over the next 10 years, IDTechEx predicts strong growth in this market, driven by the falling price of batteries and the total cost of ownership benefits that electric machines provide. As such, a new battery market will be created, one that IDTechEx's new "Battery Markets in Construction, Agriculture & Mining Machines 2024-2034" report finds will grow to a value of US$7.8 billion at a 10-year CAGR of 27.1% and with an annual demand of more than 50GWh in 2034.
1 May 2024

Mixed Messages on MaaS Market Readiness
Over the last three to four years, the driverless robotaxi industry has begun to flourish. Driverless services are coming online in multiple cities across the US and China. IDTechEx's recent report, "Future Automotive Technologies 2024-2034: Applications, Megatrends, Forecasts", predicts that the driverless robotaxi industry will be generating over US$470 billion annually through services in 2034.
Full profile interview
28 Mar 2024

Infineon: 750V SiC MOSFETs for Onboard Chargers
IDTechEx attended and asked live questions during a webinar about Infineon's 750V SiC MOSFETs for use in automotive onboard chargers, focussing on power density and bidirectionality
Update interview
21 Mar 2024

Mobileye: Automotive Radar
Mobileye is a giant in chips for advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) applications in the automotive market, creating massive success with its EyeQ range of products. For some years now it has been promising an automotive radar for 2025 to beat the competition. At CES 2024, Mobileye showed substantive progress towards this promise.
Full profile interview
22 Jan 2024

Currents
Currents was founded in 2021 and is a B2B marketplace for end-of-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries intentionally designed for second-life energy storage solutions. The company is headquartered in Oregon, US.
18 Dec 2023

The Continued Rise of the Robotics Industry Over the Next Decade
Due to rising labor costs and labor shortages, coupled with the surge in e-commerce and logistics demands, the mobile robotics market is rapidly expanding. IDTechEx's forecast indicates that the annual market size for mobile robotics in logistics and delivery is set to approach US$150 billion, marked by a robust double-digit compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next two decades.
Full profile interview
30 Nov 2023

Schaeffler: Magnet Free Motors
IDTechEx learned more about Schaeffler's magnet free motor technology for electric vehicles.
10 Nov 2023

Rising Star: Commercial Advancements & Developments of SSB
The announcement claimed by Toyota that it had a "technological breakthrough" to resolve durability issues and "a solution for materials" for a solid-state battery (SSB) powering EVs in July 2023 has triggered another wave of interest in SSBs, in addition to the continuous efforts from companies such as BMW, CATL, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, LG, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Panasonic, Samsung, Volkswagen, etc.
Innovation Map
11 Sep 2023

Electric Vehicle Market and OEM Performance 2015-H1 2023
Innovation roadmap for the electric vehicle (EV) market and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) performance 2015-H1 2023.