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Volvo Cars aims for 50 per cent of sales to be electric by 2025

Volvo Cars aims for fully electric cars to make up 50 per cent of its sales by 2025, the company announced.

Fantastic Progress at Printed Electronics Europe

Europe's leading event on printed, flexible and hybrid electronics - Printed Electronics Europe, hosted by IDTechEx in Berlin on April 11-12, saw attendance from a record 63 countries with 16% growth of the exhibit floor space.

Volvo Trucks' first all-electric truck

Volvo Trucks now introduces its first all-electric truck for commercial use - the Volvo FL Electric for urban distribution and refuse operations, among other applications.

Geely, L'Oréal, Arsenal FC and PolyPhotonix to Open the IDTechEx Show!

The IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, Germany, on April 11-12 is the key meeting place for those involved in technology scouting and product innovation, bringing together emerging technologies with global brands.

Geely, L'Oréal, Arsenal FC and PolyPhotonix Open Printed Electronics

Printed Electronics Europe 2018 in Berlin, Germany, on April 11-12 is the key meeting place for those involved in technology scouting and product innovation, bringing together printed and flexible electronics with global brands.

enModus helps Virgin Media get smart about energy consumption

enModus, the smart building technology company, has successfully implemented a project with Virgin Media to radically reduce energy consumption at one of the telecom giant's major UK technical facilities.

Volvo will start selling electric trucks in 2019

In 2019 Volvo Trucks will start selling electric medium-duty trucks in Europe, and the first units will be put into operation together with a few selected reference customers already this year.

Geely Holding acquires strategic stake in AB Volvo

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group announced it has reached agreement with Cevian Capital to acquire its entire 8.2% share capital holding and 15.6% voting rights in AB Volvo, the leading Swedish manufacturer of trucks, buses, construction equipment, diesel engines, and marine and industrial engines.

Good and Bad EV and Off Grid Forecasting

Analysts IDTechEx find that there are several indicators of dramatic change in the land, water and air vehicles increasingly made and operated by the same companies. The Chinese are clearer about this than most. This article explains this stance.

Meridian Lightweight Technologies

Meridian Lightweight technologies are the largest magnesium die casting company in the world. IDTechEx analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Stephen Brown (Engineering Manager).

Siemens demonstrates first eHighway system in the U.S

Siemens and the "South Coast Air Quality Management District " are running a one-mile, zero-emission eHighway demonstration in the Californian city of Carson.

A report from UITP-Busworld 2017

UITP-Busworld 2017 took place at Kortrijk Expo from the 23rd to the 25th October 2017. Running for over 40 years it is the worlds oldest and largest bus and coach exhibition. This year UITP and Busworld announced the first collaboration of their international bus conference in parallel to the Busworld exhibition. Analyst Aman Atak was there to learn about new developments and products, as well as attending the conference, in parallel, on the outlook of electric buses in China.

VW fails to secure long-term cobalt supply for electric vehicles

Volkswagen has failed to secure a long-term supply of cobalt used in electrical vehicle batteries.

Chinese rescue another electric laggard: Fiat Chrysler?

Analyst IDTechEx has long appraised the auto industry as consisting of those leading the move to pure electric powertrains such as Tesla, Renault + Nissan, Yutong and BYD of China, those only recently giving it major emphasis such as Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen (under duress) and Daimler and those almost in denial such as Fiat Chrysler, Mazda and Suzuki, their pure electric activity being more of a gesture than a serious activity.

Porsche trials full electric 40 tonners for logistics

The companies that together have sunk billions into fuel cell vehicles used to argue that the heavy things like buses and trucks could only be electrified with fuel cell. However, China is soon to celebrate 200,000 large pure electric buses in regular use and volume production of fuel cell buses has yet to begin.

The end of the road for thermoelectrics for wearables & vehicles?

After several years of excitement, investment and growing interest in thermoelectrics and their potential in energy harvesting applications, it's now time to clearly look at what's hype and what's reality, and the technology developers in the field know that well.

New source of energy-critical lithium found in supervolcanoes

Most of the lithium used to make the lithium-ion batteries that power modern electronics comes from Australia and Chile. But Stanford scientists say there are large deposits in sources in America: supervolcanoes.

Fiat Chrysler belatedly electrifies but how?

CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Sergio Marchionne plans for more than half of its Maserati lineup to be electrified by 2022, but the detail is, as yet, unclear.

France to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2040

Nicolas Hulot announced the end of the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040.