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Breakthrough Huddig hybrid wheel loader in 2018

For light duty there are small wheel loaders and even small excavators that are pure electric. Now many manufacturers are developing or offering wheel loaders or excavators that are hybrid electric including Komatsu, Volvo and Caterpillar. Care is needed however, because this industry sometimes uses the word hybrid to mean a non-electric hybrid of hydraulic and diesel drive.

Barclays Energy Revolution Conference Report

In this article Dr Peter Harrop provides exclusive details of the invitation-only Barclays Energy Revolution Conference which took place recently in London.

Silent city

It started with Julius Caesar banning vehicles from rattling along the cobbles after 8pm so people could get to sleep. Things went backwards in the ensuing two thousand years but now it is coming center stage again.

Silatronix

Silatronix is a Wisconsin-based firm that has developed flame-retardant additives for Li-ion batteries based on organosilicon. All major battery makers are testing their compound at the moment.

Electric industrial lawn mower evolution

The Textron division in the UK Ransome Jacobsen in the UK makes industrial lawnmowers based on diesel engines and lead acid batteries that are sometimes primitive hybrids in having a separate lead acid battery pack for the powertrain.

Electric motors for electric vehicles: $400 billion confusion

What do golf cars and heavy electric trucks have in common? There is still no agreement on the best type of electric motor to use in either of them. On IDTechEx analysis, the booming, confusing traction motor business will rise to around $400b in 2027.

Electric vehicles in construction are the future

The industrial and commercial sector is the largest part of the electric vehicle value market and that will continue to be the case according to analysis in the unique IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles 2017-2027.

The aerogel market has finally come of age

IDTechEx research analysis has shown that this industry, which is almost a century in the making, is finally coming of age. Major players are finding more nascent applications and new entries are progressing out of semi-commercial prototypes and into full market launches.

Electricity supply and energy harvesting reinvented

Oil and coal are now rapidly losers and the future is wind and solar with solar costs dropping faster than predicted by the industry.

EleStor

EleStor is a Dutch company working on hydrogen-bromine redox flow batteries, which they hope can lowball the redox flow industry thanks to a levelised cost of energy of 0.05 €/kWh.

JenaBatteries GmbH

JenaBatteries is a spin-off from the University of Jena in Germany. They have developed an aqueous-based redox flow technology with redox-active polymers.

Electricity supply and electric vehicles reinvented

IDTechEx expects EVs to create significant electricity demand in about ten years and be key to huge improvements in local noise and air pollution and in global warming reduction.

Energy Storage in Germany: A report from the BVES end-of-year meeting

On Thursday, the 8th December, the members of the German Energy Storage Association (Bundesverband Energiespeicher, BVES) gathered in Berlin to learn about the progress made by the group and get a glimpse of the activities in place for 2017. IDTechEx was invited as a prospective member for the year 2017.

Optodot Corporation

Optodot is a US-based company that produces boehmite coatings for Li-ion battery separators. In 2016, LGChem signed a patent licensing agreement with the company.

The growing demand for low cost environmental sensors in smart cities

Last week Paris experienced its worst spike in pollution since records began. Cars were banned from the streets and public transport made free in the city and surrounding areas. Such vehicle bans have only been introduced four times in the last two decades, and never before on consecutive days.

Electricity supply and 3D printing

Oil and coal are now rapidly losers and the future is wind and solar with solar costs dropping faster than predicted by the industry.

EVs go all-wheel drive

Jaguar Land Rover wants half its cars to be available in an electric version by the end of the decade, after showcasing its first electric car at the Los Angeles Auto Show earlier this month.

Solar floating airport with smart city

Dick Wallis, CEO of Positioning Systems in the UK has sent IDTechEx a visionary proposal for a new combined airport, smart city and green electricity supply in Wales in the UK.

Dielectric capacitor to beat batteries?

The term supercapacitor means the same as ultracapacitor. It is traditionally limited to electrostatic devices that are based on an electrochemical double layer much thinner and of wider area than the dielectric that is the basis of all other capacitors.

Inside Levi's Stadium: where entertainment meets technology

While in Santa Clara for the IDTechEx Show, technology analyst Dr David Pugh met with staff at Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers. The 68,500 capacity stadium was opened in 2014 and is one of the most technologically enabled entertainment venues in the world.