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Australia's first off-grid, solar and battery powered classroom

Queensland turned on the sun for the official launch of Australia's first off-grid, solar and battery powered classroom - The Hivve at Bracken Ridge State High School in Brisbane.

Electriq~Global launches water-based fuel to power electric vehicles

An Australian-Israeli startup has found a way to use water in order to power electric vehicles.

The state of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure

The global electric vehicle population reached 3 million units at the end of 2017, which represents approximately 0.23% of the global vehicle population. Electric vehicle producers have responded to consumer's range anxiety by increasing the available range per charge in their vehicles to more than 200 miles. However ultimately the deployment of electric vehicles will depend on the deployment of ubiquitous chargers.

Improvement in liquid batteries, electric car refuelling in minutes

One of the biggest drawbacks of electric vehicles - that they require hours and hours to charge - could be obliterated by a new type of liquid battery that is roughly ten times more energy-dense than existing models.

Alta Motors

Alta Motors is an electric motorcycle start-up with a focus on off-road competition bikes. The company is making inroads in the U.S. market, with plans to expand internationally by 2020.

Large Opportunity for 48VMH Medium and Large Trucks?

Like the car equivalents, 48V mild hybrid trucks do not start as electric vehicles (driving the wheels electrically some or all of the time) but they are headed that way.

Walmart Canada 100 percent alternatively powered vehicles by 2028

Walmart Canada announced plans to power its fleet using 100 per cent alternative power by 2028. To meet that goal, the company has announced plans to acquire an additional 30 Tesla 18-wheeler semi-trucks, building on its original order of 10 trucks in November 2017.

Nuvve

Nuvve is a San Diegan company that provides the tools that facilitate 'vehicle to grid' (or 'v2g') services for electric vehicles, with a focus on the software aggregation platform rather than the hardware (bi-directional chargers). The company is global and has received major investment from utilities like EDF Renewables.

More torque for hydrogen-powered vehicles

IDTechEx Research has just published a new report 'Fuel Cell Vehicles 2019-2029'. Fuel cells are commercially successful in stationary applications but commercially unsuccessful in vehicles, beyond a few thousand purchased for material handling vehicles, notably forklifts.

TransPower

TransPower is a fast growing startup founded in 2010, dedicated to bringing pure electric and fuel cell / electric hybrid trucks to market. With recent partnerships from Peterbilt, an American trucking OEM, and Meritor, the company has launched a new facility in Escondido just north of San Diego to ramp-up production. They have currently sold around 50 pure electric or fuel cell heavy-duty vehicles.

New Zealand's first grid-scale battery storage facility

New Zealand's first grid-scale battery storage facility was launched in Auckland. Tesla's Powerpack battery is part of an ambitious project to test the direct integration of battery energy storage with New Zealand's electricity grid.

Electric Vehicles: Everything Is Changing - Discussing The Key Trends

IDTechEx's will bring together the leaders of the emerging electric vehicle sectors of the future. Whilst electric cars are an important area for electrification, passenger vehicles are not the only segment that is becoming electrified.

TuSimple

TuSimple is a startup founded in 2015. The company has now closed $82 million in financing to develop an autonomous software for a level 4 autonomous truck by 2020.

EVNAViQ crushes range anxiety

The lack of available accurate navigation and trip-planning solutions for electric vehicles has long been a contributing factor toward range anxiety - and is delaying large-scale adoption of electric vehicles among the general public.

SPD Control Systems

SPD Control Systems is a provider of wireless controls for Suspended Particle Devices (SPDs), licensing exclusively from Research Frontiers as well as having its own extensive patent portfolio. It has supplied leading automakers including Ford, Daimler and Tesla.

MBL-Energy certification for solar carports at California schools

MBL-Energy has received the first California Division of State Architects pre-check certification issued under the newly released 2016 CBC compliance. This certification will enable MBL-Energy to quickly move forward on the design and construction of parking canopies for California public schools and other public works by reducing the permitting approval time from up to one year down to five weeks, potentially saving schools thousands of dollars in energy costs during the process.

Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite properties

Scientists have discovered electronic properties in quantum-scale devices that are likely to impact the growing field of low-cost perovskite based optoelectronics.

IPG Photonics Corporation

IPG Photonics are the global leader of the fiber laser market. IDTechEx first had a discussion with IPG Photonics at Laser Manufacturing of Lightweight Structures 2017 (UK) in November 2017. This was followed by a second extended meeting at SPIE Photonics West 2018 (USA) in January 2018 and an interview in June 2018.

Hawaii off grid dream home

Successful entrepreneur Graham Hill has built an off-grid home in Hawaii.

Batteries and trucks go after the e-bus success story

In a recent press release, Volvo Trucks has unveiled its first all-electric truck for commercial use - the Volvo FL Electric. This piece of news is but the first in a series of announcements that started in November 2017 with the Tesla Semi, and has since seen other industry players like Daimler, Cummins, and emerging companies like Nikola present the advantages of converting the trucking industry from diesel engines to electric powertrains.