17 Sep 2010

Progress in Japan - part four
Although Mitsubishi hybrid forklifts and other new electric heavy industrial vehicles get little publicity and deserves much more, the remarkable sales success of its iMEV pure electric car, priced head to head with the impending Nissan Leaf, is gaining great attention.
16 Sep 2010

Progress in Japan - part three
Like Toyota and Fiat, Nissan is one of the few automotive companies with a range of industrial vehicles that can also leverage advances in electrification.
14 Sep 2010

Progress in Japan - part one
The Japanese postal service plans on 21,000 electric vehicles. Japan Post has been testing the vehicles since 2009 to evaluate their cost and performance.
9 Sep 2010

Fear of electric vehicle grid crash
There is great interest in planned supergrids controlling the time they charge electric vehicles.
26 Jul 2010

Toshiba lithium titanate batteries gain share
Major electronics manufacturer Toshiba has partnered with Mitsubishi Motors to develop the "super-charge ion battery," SCiB rechargeable lithium-ion battery for electric vehicles which can charge to 90% capacity in 5 minutes.
7 Jul 2010

Mitsubishi Electric to supply electric railcar equipment for Sao Paulo
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation have announced that it has received an order worth approximately four billion yen for electric equipment to be used in railcars operated by
Brazil's Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM), or Sao Paulo Metropolitan Train Company.
5 Jul 2010

Electric Vehicles in East Asia
The Western media obsess about electric cars to be made in the West, many of them being both overpriced and underperforming in global terms. This misses the fact that 56% of the value of sales of electric vehicles is and will remain in East Asia and cars only account for about half of the value of the electric vehicle business worldwide.
24 Jun 2010

UK's largest Electric Vehicle trial - first findings
The first results of a UK-wide electric and low carbon vehicle testing project have been published
16 Jun 2010

Electric Vehicles- The Clever Ten Year Strategies
The electric vehicle business is over $33 billion today at ex factory prices but cars are less than half of that. As the market nearly quintuples over the next ten years, cars will rise to nearly 55% of the business but the devil is in the detail...
6 May 2010

Photovoltaic solar sails in space
The Japanese Space Agency succeeded with an origami space orbiter and zero-gravity sushi experiments. Now comes the first "space yacht". This month in a trial run that will captivate space researchers and science-fiction writers alike, a Mitsubishi H-IIA rocket goes into orbit from the island of Tanegashima and releases its small satellite into the void.
29 Apr 2010

Growth of electric vehicles
Integrating emerging business models and new value chains
7 Apr 2010

Establishment of CHAdeMO Association
Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), Nissan Motor Company (Nissan), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Mitsubishi Motors), Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (Fuji Heavy Industries), and The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO), have formally established "CHAdeMO Association" under the resolution of its general assembly held today. The five companies above have become its executive members.
6 Apr 2010

Sharp Corporation starts operation at solar cell plant in Japan
On March 29, Sharp Corporation started operations at its new thin-film solar cell plant in Sakai City, Japan. This plant will produce thin-film solar cells using large-size glass substrates measuring 1,000 x 1,400 mm.
9 Mar 2010

Mitsubishi striving for printable OLED lighting
Mitsubishi aim to begin full-scale mass production with a launch of illumination appliances in 2011.
18 Feb 2010

14.8% conversion efficiency in thin-film silicon solar cell
A high photoelectric conversion efficiency of 14.8% in a 5mm x 5mm thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell has been claimed by Mitsubishi Electric.
External press release
12 Feb 2010

Imec, Renesas and M4S report wireless transceiver in 40nm CMOS
At this week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and its research partners Renesas Technology Corp. and M4S presented a complete transceiver with RF, baseband and data converter circuits in 40nm low-power CMOS.
2 Nov 2009

How to improve lithium traction batteries
Dependence on increasingly troublesome oil supplies and rapid degradation of the environment provide every reason why electric cars, whether hybrid or pure electric, should now be adopted rapidly.
16 Oct 2009

Size unlimited for Mitsubishi's 155 inch OLED screen
Mitsubishi created a flurry of interest at Japan's consumer electronics exhibition, CEATEC earlier this month with their 155 inch OLED Screen.
External press release
2 Oct 2009

Organic Photovoltaics Industry to convene in Boston October 15-16
Organic Photovoltaics Industry to convene in Boston October 15-16.