5 Oct 2020

Regional Development of Solid-State Batteries
The rapid growth of the electric vehicle market has driven the development, manufacture and sales of batteries, especially lithium-ion batteries. In the meantime, a number of companies are betting on the next big energy storage technologies. Solid-state batteries are one of them.
28 Jul 2020

Solid-State Batteries Will Create a $6 Billion Market in 2030
Solid-state batteries keep on attracting tremendous attention and investment with the maturing technologies and closeness to mass production.
Background
8 Jul 2020

Karma Automotive
California based Karma Automotive are best known for manufacturing luxury plug-in hybrid electric sports cars, but they are also developing a range of skateboard type chassis platforms for a wide variety of different battery electric and extended-range electric vehicles.
4 Jun 2019

Here Come 800 Volt EVs: Six Companies
An analysis of the big six companies working in 800V EV
31 May 2019

Electric Vehicles Go High Voltage
The new IDTechEx report, "Electric Vehicles 2020-2030" is the most thorough on the subject with 100 categories forecasted by number and market value and many newly-revealed trends and predictions.
29 May 2019

A Solid Future: New Opportunities enabled by Solid State Batteries
Solid state batteries have been considered as the avenue to the next generation energy storage solutions. According to IDTechEx's research "Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2019-2029: Technology, Patents, Forecasts, Players" www.idtechex.com/solid.
Event summary
7 Feb 2018

Electric Vehicles at CES 2018
IDTechEx analysts attended CES 2018. Key themes from automotive companies and suppliers were not only the vehicles themselves, but the increasing intersection between autonomy, connectivity and electrification through partnerships and ambitious technology development roadmaps.
10 Jan 2018

EMotion all new electric vehicle from Fisker
The Electric Vehicle Renaissance has truly begun - one that must be met with both timeless, yet futuristic form and hyper-intelligent function, says Henrik Fisker.
5 Dec 2017

Autonomous shuttle for smart cities
Fisker Inc is entering an alliance with Hakim Unique Group, to develop an autonomous shuttle for smart cities across the globe.
Background
3 Sep 2015

Sakti3
Sakti3 is a company developing solid-state batteries. They were founded in 2007 by current CEO Dr. Ann Marie Sastry, who was then a professor at the University of Michigan. Sakti3 was recently acquired by Dyson for $90m.
22 May 2014

Toyota Simplifies Priorities: Tesla Gets Lonely, Fisker unites
Toyota Motor, world number one in electric vehicles by a big margin, has long done the minimum with pure electric cars, saying that they remain unready for prime time due to cost and range. The rejection of pure electric cars further firmed up in May 2014.
18 Oct 2013

Lessons from eCarTec Munich October 2013
Subsequent to our survey of adoption of synchronous vs asynchronous (AC induction) motors we took a rain check at eCarTec Munich in October 2013.