Full profile interview: Competitors
10 Oct 2022
Michelin: Airless Tires for Automotive Deployment
Bridgestone has previously shown airless concepts and is one of the main tire competitors.
Update interview
2 Nov 2021
Cassioli Automatic Material Handling
IDTechEx spoke to Jose Luis Lopez Garcia, Business Development Manager at Cassioli at Robotics & Automation 2021. Cassioli is a material handling equipment manufacturer and integrator, based in Torrita di Siena, Italy. They employ about 500 people worldwide. Their active regions are Europe, Japan and Brazil. Cassioli has diverse products that can cover every procedure (e.g. picking, sorting, transporting) in the material handling operations.
Update
2 Jun 2021
Lightyear Netherlands
This start up in the Netherlands leverages research AT Eindhoven University of Technology in solar cars.
Full profile interview
24 Jun 2020
Elix, Inc.
Elix, Inc. specialize in deep learning for computer vision, materials informatics, and drug discovery. IDTechEx spoke with Dr Shinya Yuki (Co-founder and CEO) and Saki Ito (Corporate Planning Director).
16 Sep 2019
Bridgestone investigates power generating tires
The project seeks to develop new technologies that will ensure sufficient driving distance for electric vehicles with fewer batteries by installing motors inside wheels that are able to receive electric power directly from roads when driving or stopping.
25 Sep 2017
Teijin Aramid supporting student teams in solar car race
Teijin Aramid has announced it is supporting two student teams, one from KU Leuven and one from the University of Michigan, to compete in the 'Challenger' category of this year's Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.
28 Dec 2016
UK car preparing for solar challenge
Solar Team Great Britain, which is developing a solar race car and aims to be the first British team to win the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, has completed a data-collection mission to generate real-world-conditions information on the 3,022km race route from Darwin, Australia to Adelaide.
Youtube
22 Dec 2016
IDTechEx Show! Features Winning Solar Racing Car USA 2016
Video Interview with the Nuon Solar Team at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)
3 Nov 2016
IDTechEx Show! Features Winning Solar Racing Car
Debuts in North America; Event Also Features Presentations from Major Car Companies Including Ford, Nissan, Porsche and Toyota
External press release
21 Sep 2016
Solar car Nuna reveals secret innovations in South Africa
Nuon Solar Team reveals two of their secret weapons to all the competing teams with which they hope to win the longest solar race in the world, the SASOL Solar Challenge in South Africa.
6 Jun 2016
Energy Independent Electric Vehicle Technology Roadmap
This article provides a preview of the IDTechEx presentation at the 29th World Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (EVS29) in Montréal, Québec, Canada on Tuesday 21 June.
17 May 2016
Electric vehicles; Everything is changing...or has it changed already?
At last year's IDTechEx event 'Electric Vehicles; Everything is Changing', we concluded everything was indeed changing in the electric vehicle sector. At this year's event, still named 'Everything is changing', the question should surely be has everything changed already?
4 May 2016
New solar power advances for electric vehicles
This article summarises some of the future oriented presentations on solar power advances at the recent IDTechEx Show! in Berlin.
4 May 2016
Lessons from Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing: Part Two
This IDTechEx conference just finished in Berlin had a wide variety of future oriented presentations.
4 May 2016
Solar cars come to market
Winnified Noorlander of Nuon Solar Team gave a riveting presentation on their remarkable winning of seven out of nine of the recent Bridgestone Solar Challenge races across Australia on sunshine alone.
13 Apr 2016
167 Exhibiting Organizations and Counting: Printed Electronics Europe
Europe's premier show on printed, flexible and organic electronics which will be held in two weeks in Berlin on April 27-28 now has 167 exhibiting organizations.
8 Apr 2016
IDTechEx Berlin electric vehicle event excites
The forthcoming "IDTechEx Show!" in Berlin has a two day conference, "Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing" with an uncompromising focus on the future and the new - 27-28 April.