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Electric Vehicles: Everything Is Changing - Discussing The Key Trends

IDTechEx's will bring together the leaders of the emerging electric vehicle sectors of the future. Whilst electric cars are an important area for electrification, passenger vehicles are not the only segment that is becoming electrified.

Particle physicists team up with AI to solve toughest science problems

Researchers from SLAC and around the world increasingly use machine learning to handle Big Data produced in modern experiments and to study some of the most fundamental properties of the universe.

Collision-free swimming with ultrasound

The BionicFinWave takes advantage of these properties: the underwater robot swims collision-free through a pipe system made of acrylic glass thanks to ultrasound sensors.

Golden opportunity to switch to low cost energy

Britain has a "golden opportunity" to switch to greener ways of providing energy to homes and businesses without increasing bills - but only if Ministers act now to make the most of it.

Clothing that can charge your cell phone, carbon is the new black

Engineers are leveraging a partnership to create clothing that can charge your cell phone. Move over, Iron Man.

GeneSiC Semiconductor

GeneSiC is a company that has been working on SiC (silicon carbide) power and silicon high power devices for approaching 14 years

Volkswagen is vigorously advancing its electromobility in China

The Volkswagen Group is expanding its successful business relationships in the People's Republic of China. The agreements cover the areas of e-mobility, connectivity, mobility services and autonomous driving.

Zero Genset: $100 Billion Opportunity

As society and equipment become more mobile and remote from grids, diesel and gas gensets will be bought in larger numbers for a few years yet - possibly peaking at around $30 billion global market size when over 600GW will be deployed. The Zero Genset market will rise to at least $100 billion if it replaces significant grid power.

The 3D printing software market will be worth $966M in 2028

This rapid growth is analysed and implications evaluated in the latest market intelligence report from IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Bryony Core: 3D Printing Software 2018-2028: Technology and Market Analysis.

3D printing materials market to be worth $16B in 2028

Following commercialisation in the 1990s, today 3D printing has established itself as an attractive manufacturing solution for prototyping and beyond. Materials suppliers are poised to capitalise on this unmet demand, with the 3D printing materials market to be worth $16B in 2028.

Wave and Tidal Power: Success Under 10MW

The new IDTechEx report, "Wave, Tidal and Hydro Power 1W-10MW 2018-2038" observes that the main investors in water power - governments, utilities etc. - seek something that may become large in gross sales value by involving very large grid projects rather than large numbers of small and medium-sized projects.

Conductive inks: conformal 3D-shaped coatings, game-changing success?

A major frontier in the conductive ink business is conformal coating on 3D-shaped objects. For the purposes of this article, we will divide this into two categories: aerosol-deposited 3D-shaped antennas and conformal on-chip EMI shielding.

Bolt Threads

Bolt Threads is using genetically engineered yeast to make spider silk proteins by fermentation.

Unexpected renewables advances

Recent progress in renewables has bordered on the surreal. At ICREN Barcelona recently we were invited to consider those giant wind turbines sweeping 200 meters of sky. Up there the wind is stronger and more consistent and that size of turbine is more efficient.

Fossil Group and PUMA sprinting into watches and wearables

Fossil Group Inc and PUMA SE signed a global license partnership agreement for the design, development and distribution of PUMA watches and smartwatches through 2028.

After Uber, Tesla incidents, can artificial intelligence be trusted?

Considering last month's fatal crash of a self-driving Uber that took the life of a woman in Tempe, Arizona, and the recent death of a test-driver of a semi-autonomous vehicle being developed by Tesla, peoples' trust in the technology behind autonomous vehicles may also have taken a hit.

Interview: Seabased talks up 2.5 GW wave power pipeline

Seabased, a wave energy company, recently secured a key bit of business in Africa to ensure the future growth of the company.

A paperlike LCD- thin, flexible, tough and cheap

Optoelectronic have manufactured a special type of liquid crystal display that is paper-thin, flexible, light and tough. With this, a daily newspaper could be uploaded onto a flexible paperlike display that could be updated as fast as the news cycles, as reported in Printed Electronics World.

New Zealand's first electric bus

New Zealand's first electric bus hit the road in Auckland, serving the university's North-City Campus and South-City Campus bus routes.

The 3D printing market will be worth $22B in 2028

From its humble beginnings in the late 1980s, through to the global force that it is today, the capabilities of 3D printing technology have expanded dramatically, to establish itself as an attractive manufacturing solution for prototyping and production.