Energy Storage

This article shares some of the research carried out in producing the new IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles - the Next Decade. Those selling components for electric vehicles and those wishing to make the vehicles themselves must seek where the majority of the money is spent and will be spent.

Energy harvesting comes to the fore with electric vehicles because the price they pay for being environmental and exhibiting many performance advantages is that they have limited energy available.

The low carbon vehicle specialist Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) is developing a 48 volt version of its electric supercharger based on its variable torque enhancement system known as VTES. The more powerful higher voltage variant will support moves by European vehicle manufacturers announced earlier this year to introduce 48 volt passenger vehicle power networks to help meet the requirement for lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Researchers from the NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI) have developed the world's first energy-storage membrane, answering the need for cost-effective and environmentally friendly energy storage and delivery solutions.

According to the World Bank, 1.6Bn people, over one fifth of the world's population, lack access to electricity via a grid and pay high prices for kerosene to serve basic needs such as lighting. Solar lamps and phone chargers have been available for some time but the initial cost is beyond the reach of many potential users. Now Eight19, a developer and manufacturer of printed plastic solar technology has an inexpensive pay-as-you-go, personal solar electricity system for the developing world.

CEATEC is a comprehensive IT and electronics trade show where world-leading technologies, products and services are announced, and is currently being held in Tokyo, Japan.

World's first energy-storage membrane outstrips existing rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI) have developed the world's first energy-storage membrane, answering the need for cost-effective and environmentally friendly energy storage and delivery solutions.

Trojan Battery Company and Palladium Energy have formed a strategic alliance to develop clean energy battery solutions for a broad range of industries.

University of Leeds scientists have invented a new type of polymer gel that can be used to manufacture cheaper lithium batteries without compromising performance.

University of Leeds scientists have invented a new type of polymer gel that can be used to manufacture cheaper lithium batteries without compromising performance.

Wireless window contacts draw all their energy from ambient radio signals.

Researchers may have found a new ingredient that could not only make lithium-ion batteries more efficient, but also cleaner and cheaper to manufacture.

PragmatIC Printing Ltd, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, and De La Rue plc, the world's largest integrated commercial security printer and papermaker, announced that they are working together on prototypes for printed electronic security products.

Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc., in Dayton, Ohio, have developed a new approach energy storage devices based on rapidly shuttling large numbers of lithium ions between electrodes with massive graphene surfaces.

Researchers from Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc. have proposed a new principle for energy storage that can be applied to electric vehicles, as published in //Nano Letters//.

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries.

The latest from the Rice lab of chemist Robert Hauge stakes a claim in the drive toward robust, versatile energy storage with a solid-state, nanotube-based supercapacitor that can be deeply integrated into the manufacture of devices.

Professor Ray Baughman from the University of Texas at Dallas discussed in his keynote presentation the bi-scrolled yarns developed by his team.

MicroGen Systems is developing a global, scalable, green, renewable energy power source.