24 Sep 2019
Amazon buys 100,000 Rivian electric trucks
Amazon and Global Optimism announced The Climate Pledge, a commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. Amazon becomes the first signatory of this pledge. The Climate Pledge calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050.
24 Sep 2019
Wearable brain-machine interface could control a vehicle, computer
Combining new classes of nanomembrane electrodes with flexible electronics and a deep learning algorithm could help disabled people wirelessly control an electric wheelchair, interact with a computer or operate a small robotic vehicle without donning a bulky hair-electrode cap or contending with wires.
24 Sep 2019
Innovative heat battery gets 7 million euro grant from EU
The innovative battery uses thermochemical material to store renewable energy in an inexpensive and lossless way. This helps to bridge longer periods, especially during winter months, when there is less or no energy from sun, wind or other sustainable sources.
24 Sep 2019
Webinar Weds 2 Oct 2019 - Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles
IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar on Wednesday 2 October 2019 titled Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles.
23 Sep 2019
What Happens To Retired Electric Vehicle Batteries
IDTechEx Research Asks What Happens To Retired Electric Vehicle Batteries: You Live More Than Once. By 2030, second-life battery capacity will hit over 275GWh per year which presents huge opportunities for energy storage, according to IDTechEx's latest report named Second-life Electric Vehicle Batteries 2020-2030.
23 Sep 2019
Batteries: Unknowns and Certainties
It is certain that lithium batteries will be dominant over the coming decade and their chemistry will change in pursuit of reduction in cost and flammability and to obtain greater energy density. Uniquely, IDTechEx forecasts the biggest application - electric vehicles - in 101 categories, but any forecast has assumptions that matter a great deal. In the IDTechEx report, "Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles 2020-2030", IDTechEx forecasts ten years assuming, not predicting, no global recession and no shortages.
23 Sep 2019
America's largest solar energy storage system planned for Los Angeles
Located on 2,650 acres in Kern County, California, the project will include two large-scale solar facilities that will capture 400 megawatts of solar energy and store up to 1,200 megawatt-hours of energy — all of which can be distributed to meet peak demand, reducing the need for natural gas at night or on cloudy days. The site will hold enough energy to power 283,330 homes across Los Angeles.
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23 Sep 2019
Tritium opens state-of-the-art innovation and customer-focused R&D
Tritium has opened the doors of a new facility in Los Angeles which will enable the company to increase production to cater for a growing sales pipeline in the Americas region.
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23 Sep 2019
Sun Investment Group launches corporate power purchasing agreements
Sun Investment Group Launches First Corporate Power Purchasing Agreements Available in Central and Eastern Europe
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23 Sep 2019
SEEIT to acquire 125 MW cogeneration portfolio in Spain for 64 m Euro
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc, the first UK-listed investment company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector, has agreed to acquire a portfolio of cogeneration assets in Spain for a total cash consideration of approximately €64 million.
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23 Sep 2019
UK Power Networks to help deliver Greater Manchester's greener future
UK Power Networks Services has been accepted onto a framework that will deliver projects to renew and upgrade Manchester Metrolink's electrical infrastructure to help support Transport for Greater Manchester's (TfGM's) green transport strategy.
23 Sep 2019
'Phyjama,' a physiological sensing pyjama
Scientists expect that in the future, electronically active garments containing unobtrusive, portable devices for monitoring heart rate and respiratory rhythm during sleep, for example, will prove clinically useful in health care. Now researchers have developed physiological-sensing textiles that can be woven or stitched into sleep garments they have dubbed "phyjamas."
23 Sep 2019
A smart artificial hand for amputees merges user and robotic control
Scientists are developing new approaches for improved control of robotic hands - in particular for amputees - that combines individual finger control and automation for improved grasping and manipulation.
20 Sep 2019
Optical sensor that detects very low glucose concentrations
The tool could be integrated into a smartphone and prevent people with diabetes from having to prick themselves to measure their glucose level.
20 Sep 2019
'Flying fish' robot can propel itself out of water and through the air
A bio-inspired bot uses water from the environment to create a gas and launch itself from the water's surface. The robot, which can travel 26 metres through the air after take-off, could be used to collect water samples in hazardous and cluttered environments, such as during flooding or when monitoring ocean pollution.
20 Sep 2019
Device generates light from the night sky
An inexpensive thermoelectric device harnesses the cold of space without active heat input, generating electricity that powers an LED at night, researchers report.
19 Sep 2019
Webinar Tuesday 1 October 2019 - Here Come 48V Full Hybrids
IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 1 October 2019 titled Here Come 48V Full Hybrids.
19 Sep 2019
CNH Industrial investing $250M in Nikola's 'disruptive' HD trucks
CNH Industrial announced its intention to enter into a strategic and exclusive Heavy-Duty Truck partnership with Nikola Corporation, to accelerate industry transformation towards emission neutrality of Class 8 / Heavy-Duty Trucks in North America and Europe through the adoption of fuel-cell technology.
19 Sep 2019
New health monitors are flexible, transparent and graphene enabled
Researchers have demonstrated a new class of flexible and transparent wearable devices that are conformable to the skin and can provide continuous and accurate measurements of multiple human vital signs.
19 Sep 2019
Using machine learning to estimate risk of cardiovascular death
Humans are inherently risk-averse: We spend our days calculating routes and routines, taking precautionary measures to avoid disease, danger, and despair. Still, our measures for controlling the inner workings of our biology can be a little more unruly.
With that in mind, a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artifi