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Ultimate Transmissions: How Tesla Could Avoid Rare-Earth Magnets

Tesla recently announced the elimination of rare-earths in its next generation permanent magnet motors. This would normally require a large performance defecit or much larger motor. Ultimate Transmissions has designed a ferrite magnet motor that could solve these issues.

The Metamaterials Landscape

Innovation roadmap for the metamaterials landscape.

ATT (Advanced Thermal Technologies)

ATT is collaborating with Henkel to develop heating for automotive interiors based on positive temperature coefficient (PTC) ink and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) sensor cover heaters utilizing in-mold electronics (IME). IDTechEx caught up with Head of Printed Electronics Martin Hartinger at LOPEC 2023.

Advanced Recycling: The Answer to Sustainable Packaging?

The need for a circular economy has never been so urgent. Plastic consumption is expected to double globally by 2050, creating environmental and human health risks. Not only is plastic waste overflowing in landfills, but a significant portion is mismanaged and leaks into the environment: the OECD estimates that nearly 80 million tonnes of plastic waste was mismanaged globally in 2019.

Move.ai

Early-stage London-based company using AI to perform marker-less motion capture with as little as two iPhones or other cameras. Its tracking can compare favorably to optical tracking using multimillion dollar setups. IDTechEx met representatives from the company at Laval Virtual 2023.

Applied Brain Research

Applied Brain Research, or ABR for short, is an AI and neural network consultancy that assists customers with data-related tasks.

AEye, Inc.

AEye is a technology company that provides advanced imaging and sensing solutions for various industries, including smart infrastructure and automotive. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Upcoming Webinar - Smart Packaging: Emerging Drivers and Technologies

Wednesday 17 May 2023 - Multiple smart packaging technologies, including embedded lighting, wireless energy harvesting, flexible batteries, and low-cost sensing; Case studies showing the deployment and adoption of different types of smart packaging, such as electronic blister packs for pharmaceuticals; A roadmap for the adoption of different smart packaging technologies, and assessment of technology gaps and other adoption barriers

Pure Battery Technologies

Pure Battery Technologies (PBT) is an Australian company who produces precursor for active nickel-based cathode material (pCAM) from recycled battery material.

Yoshino Technology Inc

Yoshino Technology sell portable battery power packs that utilise Li-NMC solid-state cells.

Considerations for Remanufacturing Second-Life EV Batteries

The Li-ion EV battery circular economy comprises multiple important steps, requiring decisions from key stakeholders at any one part. Second-life EV batteries can be useful after their first life in an EV.

Denkosha

Denkosha started exclusive domestic sales of ultra-thin/ultra-lightweight flexible solar panels manufactured by Sunport Power from November 2022, and became a sales agent and construction agent from December 2022. The construction license system started from January 2023. Denkosha not only undertakes procurement, design, construction, and maintenance as a package, but also has many achievements in applying for various subsidies and subsidies.

Wiliot

Wiliot offers battery-free smart tags and an associated software ecosystem for tracking objects both in supply chains and after purchase. IDTechEx caught up with Chief Marketing Officer Steve Statler to find out more about the latest developments.

Digitizing Agriculture — Agbots and Software

This premium article covers digitizing agriculture, with technology progression roadmaps, use case examples, business models, and SWOT analyses.

Webinar - Electric Trains: The Transition Towards Li-ion Batteries

Thursday 11 May 2023 - Battery electrification entry points in train markets: mainline/shunter locomotives and multiple units; Market drivers and barriers for electric trains; Battery chemistry options and their suitability for the rail market, comparing NMC, LFP, LTO, solid-state and lithium metal; Competitive landscape analysis with details from IDTechEx primary research interviews with multiple heavy-duty system suppliers; Insight into the IDTechEx global market outlook for electric trains

Lithium Australia

Lithium Australia is based in Australia and has two fully owned subsidiaries in battery recycling and cathode material production. This profile focuses on the company's involvement in the Li-ion battery recycling market.

Asahi Kasei: Fire Retardant Plastics

IDTechEx spoke to Asahi Kasei at the SPE Plastics for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles event in Detroit in April 2023. The focus of the conversation was around its flame retardant PA66 grade with potential for EV battery applications.

Auto L: A New LiDAR Start-up

Auto L was founded in 2019 as a spin-out of Korean automotive OEM Hyundai. It has had some small-scale deployments and is currently looking to expand its business in the US.

Upcoming Webinar: Will Sodium-Ion Batteries Disrupt and Conquer?

Thursday 18 May 2023 - The following aspects will be addressed: Materials for sodium-ion cell design; Sodium-ion battery value proposition; Opportunities and challenges in the sodium-ion battery market; Sodium-ion battery players and commercialisation efforts; Will sodium-ion batteries replace lithium?

SMR Market to Meet 2% Of Total Electricity Demand by 2043

Small modular reactors (SMRs) promise cheaper nuclear energy, supplying zero-carbon grid baseload and enabling new use cases for nuclear reactors. By shrinking the size of nuclear reactors compared to conventional large nuclear reactors, much of the construction is transferred to factory assembly lines, cutting capital costs and making nuclear power cost-competitive with renewables in many applications.