Electric vehicles

Addax Motors is a Belgium-based manufacturer of electric commercial microcars. IDTechEx spoke to Addax at the London EV Show 2023.

Thursday 18 January 2024 - This webinar will cover the market progress, opportunities, and future predictions for FCEVs across several vehicle segments, including: Cars; Light commercial vehicles; Trucks; and Buses

Wednesday 24 January - Locations of copper around modern and future vehicles; Copper utilisation in the electric powertrain: Impact of changing battery chemistries; Impact of changing motor technologies; Impact of emerging semiconductor technologies in the inverter; Overview of replacement threats from aluminium

Bramble Energy produces bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, leveraging manufacturing techniques typically seen in the printed circuit board industry. IDTechEx spoke with Dr Carsten Pohlmann (Business Development Director)

The premium article summarizes the key sensors, trends and regulations introduced at In-Cabin Sensing USA from December 6-8.

Develon is the new brand of construction equipment from Doosan. The new brand indicates a move towards new electrified and eventually automated technologies.

FEHRMANN MaterialsX is the digital materials R&D-focused arm of the FEHRMANN Tech Group, a Hamburg-based aluminum alloy specialist. Its MaterialsX software suite couples large language models with machine learning models and simulation for material behavior, and experimental verification to speed up alloy development by orders of magnitude.

First Mode is a UK-based decarbonization solutions company founded in 2018. First Mode is a leader in the electric retrofitting of haul trucks for mining. The company underwent a merger with Anglo American's nuGen division in early 2023.

This premium article gives an overview of the construction of camera sensors and how they are designed and shows features that go into the dies. New applications of automotive cameras such as e-mirrors and in-cabin monitoring are discussed. The article then looks at the emerging trend within automotive cameras to offer high dynamic range, what it means and what difference it makes.

Thursday 11 January 2024 - An overview of the regulations in Europe, China, USA, and Japan, and how the regulations affect the adoption rate of in-cabin sensing technologies; An analysis of different in-cabin sensing technologies; Commercial use cases and overview of players, including tier ones and tier twos; Market opportunities and market forecast overview

This premium article discusses fuel cell electric trucks, including model availability, benchmarking, and costs.

Donaldson presented a webinar on its venting technology for EV drive units.

Star Charge is a Chinese manufacturer of charging hardware, energy storage, and other related charging technologies. IDTechEx spoke to Star Charge at the London EV Show 2023.

This premium article discusses fuel cell light commercial vehicles, including sales, players, and benchmarking.

ECS Industrial Computer is a Taiwanese charging hardware manufacturer and charging payment solutions provider. IDTechEx spoke to ECS at the London EV Show 2023.

Living near a building site will no longer mean being woken up at the crack of dawn by such loud revving engines thanks to the electrification of construction vehicles. Future operators will soon be utilizing screens to control machines in a safer, calmer environment, and one day, machines could dig holes themselves as the industry advances and moves closer towards automation.

Tesla's recent recall could have cost it billions of dollars, but instead, an over-the-air software update was all that was required to fix an issue affecting over 2 million vehicles.

At the heart of LiDARs are laser emitters, laser drivers and photoreactors, all of which are semiconductor devices. This premium article explains why GaN is a typical choice for laser drivers regardless of LiDAR type, however the semiconductor used in the emitter and photodetector depends on the wavelength that the LiDAR is intended to operate at. This premium article explains the semiconductor choices available for laser emitters and photodetectors, covers the fabrication process of each and shows how much semiconductor material it takes to make a single diode.

Kobelco is an established construction machine manufacturer specialising in excavators and cranes. With increasing fuel prices and pressure to decarbonise, the construction industry is beginning to electrify. This summary profile explores Kobelco's electric products and activities thus far.