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Webinar Tuesday 9 August - is the end of the TCF downturn in sight?

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 9 August 2016.

Who will win the battery gigafactory race?

Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of analysts IDTechEx, was interviewed on 27 July by BBC Television World News in a live program transmitted worldwide speaking on the new Tesla gigafactory.

Overcoming key challenge in using light for wireless communications

In an advance that could one day make light-based wireless communications ubiquitous, researchers have demonstrated a conceptually new approach for detecting optical communication signals traveling through the air.

The death of MakerBot is not the death of an industry

Following the progress of MakerBot, it is easy to be despondent about the whole desktop 3D printing industry.

Mexican whale sharks and electric vehicles

The pollution situation with large ships is appalling. The 15 largest ships in the world emit as much nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide as the world's 760 million cars.

Cambridge CMOS Sensors

IDTechEx interviewed Jess Brown, Sales & Marketing Director at Cambridge CMOS Sensors, following their acquisition by Austrian sensor company ams announced in June 2016.

Industrial and commercial electric vehicles: Biggest market

The saying is, "In a gold rush, get there first, sell shovels". The "shovels" of the EV business are covered in the unique new IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles on Land 2016-2026.

Voltstorage

Voltstorage is a Germany start-up developing vanadium redox flow batteries for the residential storage market.

Hino motors advances hybrid buses

Controlled by Toyota, Hino Motors of Japan is a $13 billion company making buses, trucks and pickups that is similar in size to competitor BYD in buses, cars, forklifts and batteries in China.

Webinar Tuesday 2 August - Supercapacitors Technology Development

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 2 August 2016 titled Supercapacitors Technology Development and Market Adoption 2016-2026

Ford plug-in vehicle behavior

Daniel Boston and Alyssa Werthman of Ford Motor Company, Dearborn MI have recently published a study "Plug-in Vehicle Behaviors: An analysis of charging and driving behaviour of Ford plug-in electric vehicles in the real world".

Conductive inks: big players forced to go niche

IDTechEx Research has been following and analysing the conductive inks and pastes market for many years. It finds that this $1.3bn* market is subject to major change with long-lasting consequences on the business models of many large incumbent suppliers.

Electric vehicle cost-effectiveness

In June 2016, Dr Nancy E. Ryan, Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc., and collaborators issued a paper Electric Vehicle Cost-Effectiveness and its Implications for Utility Program Design.

miRobot

miRobot started in 2011 to design and develop distributed milking robot systems. Its idea is that each stall will have an inexpensive and good enough robot to do the milking. It has raised nearly $700k to date and has so far only demonstrated pre-commercial (lab scale) prototypes. Its first commercial prototype is planned for Oct 2016.

Wireless in-wheel motors

IDTechEx comments on research presented by the University of Tokyo and NSK at EVS29, June 2016.

Integrating charging and traction systems in electric vehicles: Part 2

To overcome the diverse charging landscape described in Part One, Continental acknowledges that it is a clever idea to equip the EV with all the charging interfaces discussed

Tesla the follower

Tesla is a leader in the design and commercialisation of pure electric cars. It lacks profit but has an orderbook that its competition can only dream about. Since last year Tesla has also been selling batteries based on Panasonic cells that can power homes and businesses copying several other companies that were there before

Does IoT present new opportunities for conductive adhesives?

The Internet of Things adds new sensing and communications to improve the functionality of all manner of things in the world, leading towards broader connectivity, and huge amounts of data generated and exchanged.

Integrating charging and traction systems in electric vehicles: Part 1

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new type of high-power integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles. Compared to today's electric vehicle chargers, the new system could shorten the charging time from eight to two hours, and to reduce the cost by around $2,000, according to the developers.

Improving lithium-ion capacitors

The suitability of the proposed technology has been analysed and it was proved that lithium-ion capacitors can act as a main power or energy source without any reduction of the system capabilities.