Electric vehicles

KLD of the USA is collaborating with MINTH Group of Ningbo City, China on its thin film based traction motor technology.

The market for hybrid and pure electric cars homologated as such is set to be $188 billion in 2025 according to IDTechEx analysis.

Rice University scientists who want to gain an edge in energy production and storage report they have found it in molybdenum disulphide.

BYD is testing its 12 meter long electric bus with some transport companies in Mexico, soon will integrate its 8 meter long model and by mid-2015 incorporate its articulated unit.

An innovative method for powering EVs that drastically reduces the number of batteries.

Electric and hybrid vehicles for construction, agriculture and mining will be a $30 billion market in 2025.

The final exterior design of Detroit Electric's all-new, pure electric two-seater sport scar, the SP:01, has been revealed as the company gears up for production.

Two Project ResQu helicopters developed by CSIRO completed trial flights near Cairns, locating weeds like the dreaded 'purple plague', or Miconia calvescens, faster and more reliably than ever.

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a nonprofit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical services. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan's economy from a labor-intensive industry to a high-tech industry. Numerous well-known, high-tech companies in Taiwan, such as leaders in the semiconductor industry TSMC and UMC, can trace their origins to ITRI. IDTechEx visited ITRI and this is our report.

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies this century.

Aleees is a well-equipped company in Taiwan that started by making LFP-NCO (lithium iron phosphate nano co-crystalline compound not nickel cobalt oxide) cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. Now the company is integrated vertically and develops electric buses as well.

BYD Motors has unveiled The Lancaster eBus, a break-through, 60-foot, articulated battery-electric bus that can drive 170+ miles with a passenger load of up to 120 passengers, and was in development for almost two years.

Researchers have developed new software that estimates how much farther electric vehicles can drive before needing to recharge.

Taxi organisations BIOS-groep and BBF SchipholTaxi will take charge of all taxi services departing from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. This means the introduction of 168 fully electric taxis.

Adds Experienced Manager to its Rapidly Growing Japan Team. Tokyo, Japan and Cambridge, UK - Oct. 20, 2014 - IDTechEx the leader in market research on emerging technologies today announced the expansion of its Japan office with the hiring of Mr. Yasuo Yamamoto as its head of business development in Japan.

Researchers have developed a torque vectoring transmission with characteristics that are optimally adapted to electric vehicles.

Analysts IDTechEx finds over $500 billion will be spent on electric traction motors for electric vehicles between 2014 and 2025.

The Taiwan Automotive International Forum and Exhibition is proving to be a lively affair with about 300 present and a high standard of excellence in presentations and participation - an apt celebration of ten years of industry partnership in Taiwan. Here are some themes, including information from many valuable personal conversations at the event - so rich with detail, any report can only give a few aspects.

Car engines - whether driven by gasoline, diesel, or electricity - waste an abundance of energy. Researchers are working on ways to stem this wastefulness.

In a major step to diversify the range of low emission vehicles available, an £11 million investment has been announced by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles towards the development of a hydrogen fuel infrastructure in the UK.