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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - Part one

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) market is estimated by IET to be worth $2.3bn over the next decade with 1,400 new AUVs built. Over 630 AUVs have already been made for military, scientific and oil and gas sectors in particular.

Plextronics provide critical developments for the organic solar market

An organic solar ink developed by Plextronics can be used for energy harvesting applications such as animated point-of-purchase displays that are self-powered by organic photovoltaics (OPV).

Electroactive Polymers and Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Devices

The use of polymers with electroactive response has only emerge in this decade with the introduction of Electroactive Polymer materials, having significant displacement levels.

Smith Electric Vehicles

Smith Electric Vehicles was famous for the painfully slow but much loved British milk delivery truck - a pure electric vehicle.

Brushless DC motor driver technology advances green electric race cars

The most recent instalment of the World Econo Move event held in Akita, Japan on May 4th and 5th saw an exciting example of extreme green electric vehicles being pushed to achieve maximum travel distance in 2 hours on a single, standard form factor, lead acid 12 volt battery.

Cotton clothing to produce power

The laboratory of Juan Hinestroza, assistant professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design at Cornell University, has developed cotton threads that can conduct electric current as well as a metal wire can, yet remain light and comfortable enough to give a whole new meaning to multi-use garments.

Flexible and hybrid electronics

Flexible displays, lighting and solar panels may open the way to new kinds of consumer products and architectural features, but the real driver of the current up swell of interest in flexible, printed or hybrid electronics technology is manufacturers seeking ways to reduce production costs of large-area devices.

Record breaking pure electric motorcycles

KillaCycle is the world's fastest electric motorcycle. It achieved zero to 60 mph in less than one second and 176 MPH (282 km/h) using A123 batteries.

Partnership to develop thin film solar technology

3M has teamed up with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop technology for the creation of low-cost thin-film photovoltaic modules.The $7.33 million partnership will also include concentrating solar power and biofuel technology development.

Second day of Energy Harvesting Europe

The second day of the conference Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe was as rich with information and expert opinion as the first. Here are just few of the overall impressions given by the day's events.

THINK applauds introduction of bipartisan EV bills

Electric car maker THINK hailed the introduction of two bills in the U.S. House and the Senate on Thursday designed to help spur the deployment of electric vehicles and related charging infrastructure.

IDTechEx report back from SID - Day two

As the interest in electronic paper technologies continues some of the major developers where present in the exhibition.

GE, Nissan to drive smart charging for Electric Vehicles

In the race to build a smart-charging infrastructure that fuels the coming plug-in car revolution, GE and Nissan have teamed to research new technology developments that will make smart charging a reality.

IP66-rated direct-drive rotary stages

IP66: Protected against dust and water jets from any direction Direct-drive motor provides rapid precision motion with no gear backlash Low-friction seal minimizes direction reversal hysteresis Continuous or limited travel Axial load capacity up to 175 kg; 100-200 rpm continuous rotation speed Three different aperture sizes: 30 mm, 80 mm, 130 mm

E Ink and Chilin to build electronic paper displays

"Solutions with E Ink and Chilin technology reduce dependency on paper, printed labels, and large batteries."

Some impressions of Energy Harvesting Europe

The IDTechEx Energy Harvesting Europe event in Munich had its first day on 26 May. Here are some impressions from the first day.

Energy Harvesting Europe and WSN/RTLS Award Winners

This week more than 250 people attended the second annual IDTechEx event on Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks & Real Time Locating Systems. These two events are co-located given the overlap in topic and attendees were delighted with the breadth of subjects that were covered. The exhibition had trebled from last year to 20 exhibitors.

IDTechEx report back from SID - Day one

The first day of the SID Symposium in Seattle opened to an audience of over 1000 attendees, with a keynote presentation from Samsung, which in order to add local world renowned expertise was followed by keynotes from The Boeing Company and Microsoft Corporation.

Making the grid smarter

As the smart grid moves from concept to reality, Argonne National Laboratory is helping to ensure this technology will interact seamlessly with the emergence of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).

Applied Laser Technology's new laser processing capabilities

These include large area machining, drilling, cutting, marking, and trimming capabilities, utilizing multiple wavelengths of lasers for addressing a wide range of materials.