16 Dec 2015

Lithium-ion batteries for electric buses
In this article IDTechEx analyst Dr Victoria Adesanya-Aworinde shares insights into demand and sales forecasts, market share, market size and market leaders.
Background: SWOT
9 Nov 2015

Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co. Ltd
Yutong has set up the only experimental center in the world which is specialized in the experimental study of buses and coaches. Yutong also possesses a professional R&D team of over 1,000 people who have advanced concepts of bus development so as to guide the design of bus products with science and technology.
- Improved design level and guaranteed manufacturing capability of Yutong's bus products.
30 Oct 2015

New biomimetic structural electronics
Biomimetics - usefully copying nature - is alive and well.
16 Sep 2015

CENEX LCV: Event In-wheel Motors & Lightweighting
The Riversimple two seat fuel cell hybrid car was on show in powertrain form at CENEX recently and in addition to the Hydrogenics fuel cell as fuel tank and the lithium-ion capacitor as engine it had four in-wheel motors.
14 Sep 2015

CENEX LCV Event: Range Extenders
The latest CENEX Low Carbon Vehicle Event took place at Millbrook UK mid September with over 50% growth on last year there being over 3000 delegates and over 200 exhibitors, mostly parts suppliers and charging station manufacturers but with several prestige stands from major motor manufacturers.
Full profile interview: SWOT
5 Aug 2015

Proterra
3 Aug 2015

Report on EV Roadmap8 Portland Oregon 28-29 July
This event of a few hundred people and twenty or so exhibitors had a good range of coverage from many choices of EV test drive to sitting in on focus groups of people minded to buy an EV.
31 Jul 2015

Rapid progress with pure electric buses
China is where most of the hybrid and pure electric buses will be made and sold over the coming decade.
27 Jul 2015

Electric buses: crucible of change
Buses are now a crucible of change, often adopting new technology before cars.
27 Jul 2015

Electric buses: billion dollar orders and crucibles of change
China alone may have 11 million electric buses by 2025 or not long after. The way they are getting costs down - something tracked by IDTechEx - that may be at a much lower price than today but still constitute about $1 trillion or more. Compare that over a decade or more with the IDTechEx projections of all global EV sales, land, water and air, in 2025 of around $500 billion. Buses matter.
20 Jul 2015

Global electricity storage market for renewables
International and national assessments of the global electricity storage market have been hindered by uncertainty about which technologies and market segments to include. A central question for this roadmap is whether storage is used to support the integration of renewables or for other purposes.
13 Jul 2015

Winners in electric vehicle batteries
IDTechEx is the only market analyst tracking the development of 45 electric vehicle categories and not just electric cars.
3 Jul 2015

Technological megatrends for vehicles
There are three important technological megatrends for vehicles that are now coming increasingly important. They are shaping what is designed and the market positioning of new vehicles from type of customer targeted to the location where the vehicles will be used.
18 Jun 2015

Electric vehicle power electronics: divergent approaches
The power electronics business as applied to electric vehicles is becoming so huge that very divergent approaches become viable.
5 Jun 2015

Fuel cell electric vehicles 2015-2030: surprises continue
This article shares some of the findings of the new IDTechEx Research report, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air and some of what will be discussed in the forthcoming IDTechEx webinar on 9th June.
22 May 2015

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.
10 May 2015

IDTechEx: Invest Now in Fuel Cell Vehicles?
There is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles. Nonetheless some manufacturers are very enthusiastic and now could be the beginning of the end of the trough of disillusionment, indeed the time to invest.
24 Apr 2015

IDTechEx: Invest now in fuel cell vehicles?
There is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles.