Electric vehicles

IDTechEx spoke to Pyrophobic about its LithiumPrevent material, a passive thermal runaway containment and propagation prevention material based on proprietary intumescent technology.

ECO STOR AS is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and designs, manufactures, and sells battery energy storage systems (BESS). These are for residential, commercial & industrial, and grid-scale applications. This also includes second life batteries from retired electric vehicles (EVs). The company has two divisions, ECO STOR AS and ECOR STOR GmbH.

Crocus Technology produces magnetic field sensors based on tunneling magneto-resistance, which enable very sensitive non-contact current measurement. IDTechEx caught up with the company at Electronica 2022.

Roughly one year ago, Tesla announced that it would be dropping radar from Model 3 and Model Y production vehicles starting May 2022. At that time, IDTechEx wrote an article about why dropping radar was a mistake.

Thermal management continues to be a key topic for electric vehicle (EV) battery design. Early trends in the market largely revolved around the adoption of active cooling for the battery pack, and now this is the industry standard.

Thermal management is critical in several industries, and the trends in emerging technologies are driving material innovation. Electronics in markets from personal devices through to cars are seeing increased integration, densification, and hence an increased focus on thermal management.

They may not be ubiquitous yet, and the day-to-day advantages that they will start to provide may not be noticeable, but automated technologies across the automotive industry are starting to come of age.

A few stand-out players in the second life electric vehicle (EV) battery market are pushing full-service business models, which encapsulate full battery lifecycle management practices.

Innovation roadmap for micro EVs.

Yadea is a Chinese company primarily focused on the development, manufacturing, and sales of two-wheeled electric vehicles. It was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai. Yadea's main products include electric bicycles, electric scooters, batteries, chargers, and electric two-wheeler vehicle parts. Yadea is the market leader in China's electric two-wheeler market with 34% market share as of 2021.

It is becoming prosaic to say there is no 'silver bullet' for marine decarbonization. But it might be fitting to say 'multiple silver bullets' are emerging since between batteries, fuel cells (FC), green hydrogen, green ammonia, e-methane and carbon capture, decarbonization across all marine subsegments might just be possible.

This premium article looks into electric motorcycles, or e-motorcycles, including various projects, specifications, benchmarking, and more.

Catalysts are critical for the performance of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. As the trend towards zero-emission vehicles continues, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are projected to grow accordingly as a market sector.

Battery demand for stationary energy storage is set to grow in line with an increasing number of renewable energy resources being added to electricity grids globally, alongside pressure from governments and states to reach targets pertaining to renewable energy generation and energy storage.

Every manufacturer has its own way of putting together an electric vehicle (EV) battery pack, and every manufacturer must consider the fire safety of its batteries

With the continued global turmoil experienced over the past few years, the prices of almost everything are rising. This has been especially true for the rare earth materials used in the manufacturing of electric motors for electric vehicles (EVs).

While it is possible to manage potential shortages of various Li-ion battery materials through chemistry choices, any growth in Li-ion demand comes with growth in demand for lithium. This is problematic given the potential for lithium shortages or supply crunches from the mid-late 2020s. But there are ways to minimise lithium intensity, consumption and demand through different technologies and strategies. This premium article will introduce and analyse the impact of different technologies and scenarios on total lithium demand.

Freudenberg is an incumbent global technology company with a 170 year history and €10 billion turnover. The new E-Power Systems division has been set up to supply fuel cell and battery systems for heavy-duty transport applications.

Charging electric buses has so far been done overnight in depots. However, if the daily operating range of the bus exceeds the real-world range that the driver is able to achieve, then local transit authorities are often left with two options.

This IDTechEx premium article compares the costs required for bunkered green hydrogen and ammonia.