Electric vehicles

Yutong Group of China is the world's largest bus and electric bus manufacturer and the 11th largest manufacturer of electric vehicles in the world.

Oxis Energy is a lithium sulphur battery technology developer company based in the UK. It is one of the few companies developing this technology. Targeting the automotive, defense and energy storage market the company has developed partnerships and received invesments from companies across the whole value chain of the electric vehicle industry.

Daimler AG is a major automotive company with electric vehicle activities under Orion bus, Smart car, Mercedes car and commercial vehicle brands and other activities including an e-scooter. Its fuel cell development for EVs and roll out program is up with the global leaders.

Toyota will offer wireless charging on all future rechargeable hybrid electric and battery electric vehicles. WiTricity who are the providers of the resonant power transfer technology announced an intellectual property license agreement with Toyota last week.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory launched an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, unmanned aerial system from a submerged submarine under a project funded by SwampWorks at the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office.

Superpedestrian has released a self-contained unit that snaps easily onto the back of any ordinary bicycle and turns it into an electric hybrid.

Ford Motor Company is one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers. It has made a late but effective entry into pure electric and hybrid cars, gaining market share rapidly.

The total global gross value market for hybrid and pure electric vehicles will reach US$334 billion within the decade, from a current value of US$69 billion, forecast analysts IDTechEx.

This third edition of IDTechEx's Supercapacitors event was held in Santa Clara, California on 20-21 November.

British Gas is piloting 28 Nissan e-NV200 vans throughout the winter to determine the future viability of 100% electric vehicle technology as part of its 13,000 home service vans fleet.

YASA Motors Limited is a thriving young company based in Oxford, England which specialises in very high power and torque density axial flux motors. A spin off from Oxford University, it was founded in 2009 and investment was initially from business angels and the founders. YASA Motors manufactures a highly differentiated advanced axial flux motor and generator based on its proprietary Yokeless And Segmented Armature (YASA™) technology.

Caproni JCS is one of the big producers of hydraulic elements and systems in Bulgaria. It was established in 1997 as a producer of hydraulic gear pumps; directional control valves, regulators of flow and pressure, mini power packs and hydraulic stations. The company is a sub-supplier of Fiat, Renault, Peugeot and Volkswagen through Fiat Group. The company recently developed the first Bulgarian industrial electric vehicle.

IFEVS/Polimodel is a provider of ready to produce vehicles. They design, develop and manufacture Micro EV. They manage the necessary time before manufacturing their Micro EVs enforcing their position in special prototype and model development. Their long term R&D international activity enforces their position in the day to day business.

Nissan and Renault are effectively one company in EV marketing terms - major manufacturer of conventional , hybrid and pure electric on-road vehicles. They constitute the world's fourth largest electric vehicle manufacturer, largest pure electric car manufacturer and are number six in forklifts.

Crown Equipment Corporation is the world's fifth largest intralogistics vehicle manufacturer and 9th largest in EVs worldwide.

Visedo , founded in 2009 and currently with 20 employees develops and manufactures electric drive train components in power range from 30-1600 kW for heavy mobile work machine, marine vessel and bus applications. The drive trains are suitable for both hybrid electric (HEV) and electric vehicles. Visedo products enable the conversion from traditional power trains into electrical or hybrid electrical vehicle solutions for mobile work machines, marine vessels and buses. The headquarters and factory are located in Lappeenranta, Finland. The company established an office in Stuttgart, Germany. The new office started operations in 2011.

The autonomous moon rover will explore the moon's surface over a 3 month period.

Two of the three vehicles in the Army's "Ultra Light Vehicle" program have now entered survivability testing in Nevada and Maryland, to evaluate both their blast and ballistic protection capability.

Nuvera Fuel Cells will be working with Italian shipbuilder, Fincantieri, on a program to power hi-end marine vessels with advanced fuel cell technology.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has developed a remote-controlled robot, dubbed the "MHI-Super Giraffe (MARS-C), capable of working at heights up to 8 metres and moving freely in areas inaccessible by humans like highly radioactive environments.