25 Dec 2013

Range-extended electric London cabs to be trialled early next year
London Mayor Boris Johnson took an exclusive first look at an all-new Range-Extended Electric Metrocab from UK-based Ecotive and its technology partner Frazer-Nash Research to be trialled in London early next year.
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25 Dec 2013

Pride Mobility
Pride Mobility Products Corporation designs and manufactures mobility vehicles for the disabled in the USA - power chairs made by them and 3 and 4 wheel scooters sourced in East Asia.
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25 Dec 2013

Bombardier Inc
Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, manufacturer of aircraft, trams, trains, buses - some are EV and others likely to be EV
24 Dec 2013

Solar electricity generated with photosynthetic proteins
Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a bio-based solar cell.
24 Dec 2013

DoE to invest $7M to commercialize hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
As part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department announced more than $7 million for projects that will help bring cost-effective, advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies online faster.
24 Dec 2013

World's first all-inkjet-printed OPVs
Scientists have produced the world's first organic photovoltaics (OPVs) to be made exclusively with inkjet printing processes.
23 Dec 2013

Testing on revolutionary marine energy device begins
A groundbreaking renewable energy device which will harvest energy from the motion of the sea is about to be tested.
23 Dec 2013

Mazda rotary gets new lease on life
Mazda Motor Corporation has given a new lease on life to its rotary engine in the form of a Mazda2 hatchback reconfigured as an extended-range hybrid.
20 Dec 2013

The total market for electric UAVs will reach over $1bn by 2023
The total market value for electric unmanned aerial vehicles will reach over one Billion dollars by 2023 according to findings in the new IDTechEx report, "Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) 2013-2023"
20 Dec 2013

Flexible li-ion battery revealed
A new ultra-thin, malleable lithium-ion variant with a high capacity.
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20 Dec 2013

Hyundai
Hyundai Motor is the fifth largest automotive vehicle manufacturer in the world and the 13th largest electric vehicle manufacturer if we include Hyundai Heavy Industries which makes pure electric forklifts. This study covers the two independent companies.
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19 Dec 2013

CABTransit
CABTransit are specialists in efficiency driven, integrated passenger scheduling systems for community transport, schools and commercial operations. Their principle product, the CABTransit System, is an automated demand responsive scheduling system for buses or community vehicles.
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19 Dec 2013

Liberty Electric Cars
Liberty Electric Cars, founded in 2007, is a privately held clean technology company which designs, engineers and manufactures, electric vehicle technologies, to serve growing demand for zero-emission transport solutions. The company turns over a $5 million dollar revenue and has operations in Coventry, Newton Abbot, Heathrow and Peterborough, in the UK.
19 Dec 2013

Energy harvesting technology reduces number of open heart surgeries
Researchers hope technology that turns vibrations into energy will reduce the number of open-heart surgeries for people with pacemakers.
19 Dec 2013

Cholesterol-tracking smartphone users take lifesaving selfies
With a new smartphone device, you can now take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that could save your life - it reads your cholesterol level in about a minute.
19 Dec 2013

Project produces graphene supercapacitor prototype
Lomiko Metals Inc and Graphene Laboratories Inc have reached a significant milestone by receiving a prototype graphene supercapacitor and a report from Stony Brook University and New York State's Center for Advanced Sensor Technology.
18 Dec 2013

Roots of the lithium battery problem
The lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles could have significantly higher energy density if their graphite anodes were to be replaced by lithium metal anodes.
18 Dec 2013

Solar sails to power CubeSats for space exploration
Two tiny, cube-shaped research satellites hitched a ride to Earth orbit to validate new hardware and software technologies for future NASA Earth-observing instruments.
18 Dec 2013

Crystal film growth: nanosheets extend epitaxial growth applications
Molecularly thin two-dimensional crystals can alleviate the lattice matching restrictions of epitaxial crystalline thin film growth, as reported by researchers in Japan.
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18 Dec 2013

RR Donnelley
RR Donnelley is 10 billion USD company proving print and related services. We examine their experience and involvement with printed electronics.