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Energy harvesting, steady growth, sensible increase in opportunities

2015 has been a year to report very disparate progress in advancing different energy harvesting technologies: advances in thermoelectrics, new and higher power output photovoltaics, capacitive harvesting as well as steady development of markets for electrodynamics along with new applications have created an array of devices serving a diverse number of industries; with applications for wireless sensors, switches and actuators all the way to high power industrial waste heat and vibration harvesting, the technology landscape is developing at a steady pace, with many interesting applications being realized.

Energy harvesting change of emphasis to be explored in Berlin

The IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, 27-28 April has over 40 companies exhibiting that are involved in energy harvesting from the materials to the chips.

IDTechEx Show! Berlin - What Is New For 2016

The annual IDTechEx Show! will have a focus on green technologies in Berlin on 27-28 April.

Energy Harvesting & Storage Conference: Call for Papers

The IDTechEx conference "Energy Harvesting & Storage" takes place in Berlin April 27-28. IDTechEx invites further submission of proposed presentations.

Robotic additive manufacturing platform

Arevo Labs has introduced a scalable Robot-based Additive Manufacturing (RAM) platform for fabricating 3D printed composite parts.

Wireless Charging: Insights from EV Roadmap 8 Oregon

There was a question and answer session "Wireless Charging: Emerging Business Models" at EV Roadmap8 Portland Oregon USA 30 July 2015.The panel consisted of Jeremy McCool of Hevo Power, which retrofits wireless charging, Jeff Muhs of WiTricity with key patents and Wesley Smith of WAVE installing large vehicle solutions. They also talked to IDTechEx afterwards.

Supercapacitors with batteries or fuel cells: result happiness

IDTechEx interviews in Japan have established that supercapacitors across lithium-ion batteries in cars can increase range by 10% by permitting deep discharge, provided suitable batteries are used that can tolerate such a regime.

Industrial and commercial electric vehicles: see the future

The IDTechEx report Industrial and Commercial Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles 2015-2025 now finds that Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles operating on land will constitute a huge 42% of the value market for electric vehicles, land, water and airborne in 2025.

Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe 2015

28-29 April, Estrel Convention Center, Berlin, Germany. In less than one week, the seventh annual IDTechEx event will provide valuable insight into energy harvesting technologies and their applications.

Companies with One Trillion Euros sales present at the IDTechEx Show!

Companies with over One Trillion Euros in combined sales will present at IDTechEx's Event on Emerging Technologies. Tesco, Qualcomm, Ericsson, United Technologies, Jaguar Land Rover, Shell provide insights, products and use cases on printed electronics, energy harvesting, wearable technologies, IoT and more.

ABB, Bosch and Cisco joint venture to unify smart home technology

ABB, Robert Bosch GmbH and Cisco Systems Inc have confirmed the formation of an international joint venture called mozaiq operations GmbH to develop and operate an open-software platform for smart homes.

3D printing jet engines and electric vehicles

At the major event IDTechEx Show! in Berlin April 28-29 there is a conference, Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing. It will reveal radical new advances such as structural electronics replacing components-in-a box, 3D printing of electric cars by Local Motors of the USA and 3D printing of small jet engines as range extenders for electric vehicles, land, water and air, by Microturbo Safran of France. IDTechEx has the world's largest selection of reports on electric vehicles and their components and systems.

ABB newest Azipod thruster for growing electric propulsion market

ABB has introduced a new addition, Azipod D, to its line of Azipod electric propulsion offering.

Very large pure electric vehicles succeed

Pure electric vehicles are inevitably small and feeble or premium-priced, niche products like the Teslas? Not true.

BYD will test three buses in Mexican cities

BYD is testing its 12 meter long electric bus with some transport companies in Mexico, soon will integrate its 8 meter long model and by mid-2015 incorporate its articulated unit.

Aleees

Aleees is a well-equipped company in Taiwan that started by making LFP-NCO (lithium iron phosphate nano co-crystalline compound not nickel cobalt oxide) cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. Now the company is integrated vertically and develops electric buses as well.

A very different supercapacitor bus

In its new report, Functional Materials for Supercapacitors 2015-2025, IDTechEx considers that supercapacitors could replace 50% of lithium-ion batteries in 15 years from now.

Thermoelectric energy harvester market to reach almost $1bn in 2024

In recent years that interest has increased regarding new applications of power generation through thermoelectric harvesting. IDTechEx research forecasts that the market for thermoelectric energy harvesters will continue to grow and reach over $950 million by 2024.