31 May 2019

New Electric Vehicle Motors Grab Sales
Huge companies make traction motors for electric vehicles. After all, as the IDTechEx report, "Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles: Land, Water, Air 2019-2029" details, every EV has at least one traction motor and increasingly they have many, including one electric aircraft with no less than 36.
30 May 2019

Wind Industry creates Africa Task Force to speed up development
The Global Wind Industry Council has set up a new Task Force to speed up and facilitate the development of wind energy in Africa.
17 May 2019

Scotland's biggest offshore wind farm complete
Each of the 84 turbines, at 188m from sea level to blade tip, stands taller than the London Eye and Beatrice is the largest offshore wind farm in the world to use jacket foundations. These jackets weigh around 1,000 tonnes each and are the deepest water fixed foundations of any wind farm in the world, installed in water depths of over 56m.
30 Apr 2019

New Flyer achieves 350 miles of zero-emission range
New Flyer of America Inc achieved 350-miles of zero-emission range with a New Flyer forty-foot, heavy-duty fuel cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2™ bus. These results exceeded the 300-mile range performance target by 17 percent without refueling.
19 Apr 2019

Siemens and EDAG on industrial application of additive manufacturing
Siemens is intensifying its cooperation with the EDAG Group in order to further promote industrial applications of additive manufacturing and to make engineering and production processes more efficient.
11 Apr 2019

IDTechEx Wearable Europe 2019 Award Winners
Each year at the IDTechEx Show!, two companies are honoured for their achievements in developing and commercialising different aspects of wearable technology. This year the awards were judged by Dr Kitty Yeung (Microsoft) & Dr Sandro Francesco Tedde (Siemens Healthineers) with support from the independent analyst team with IDTechEx Research.
19 Mar 2019

Airbus, Altran and Microsoft Open the IDTechEx Show!
The IDTechEx Show! at the Estrel Convention Centre in Berlin, Germany on 10 - 11 April is the leading global event for product innovators and technology scouts. Opening the event will be two Cornerstone presentations that will cover exciting developments across these technologies.
15 Mar 2019

Next Electric Vehicles Get Ultra Lightweight Motors
In electric aircraft, motor power-to-weight ratio is paramount for endurance, the main constraint on sales. You cannot lug ever more battery weight to get range. Indeed, better motors mean less battery in a land, water or air vehicle. The new IDTechEx Research report, "Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles: Land, Water, Air 2019-2029" explains the new emphasis on power-to-weight ratio with good efficiency.
12 Mar 2019

SniffPhone detects cancer from breath
SniffPhone, currently in its prototype phase, enables early diagnosis of gastric cancer from a person's exhaled breath. The new method may revolutionise cancer screening all over the world.
External press release
7 Mar 2019

Weland Solutions sets focus on automation
The result of one year's intensive work at Weland Solutions' development department is here; a brand new fully automatic goods to man solution.
5 Mar 2019

Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing Europe 2019
The electric vehicle population has accelerated around the world, surpassing four million units for the first time in 2018. Producers have responded to consumer's range anxiety by increasing the available range per charge in their vehicles. However, ultimately the deployment of electric vehicles will depend on the deployment of ubiquitous chargers, which can also help mitigate peak energy demand on the grid with v2g functionality.
25 Feb 2019

Eviation,partners with Siemens on propulsion for electric plane
Eviation Aircraft, has selected Siemens to provide high-power, all-electric propulsion systems for Eviation's fleet of regional Alice electric planes.
21 Feb 2019

India's first grid scale energy storage system
AES India has started construction on India's first utility-scale energy storage system, a 10 megawatt solution that will serve the electric grid.
External press release
20 Feb 2019

Vestas leads break-away group of big four turbine makers
Developers commissioned a little over 45GW of onshore wind turbines globally in 2018 compared with 47GW a year earlier. Just four manufacturers accounted for more than half, or 57%, of the machines deployed: Denmark's Vestas, China's Goldwind, GE Renewable Energy of the US and Spain's Siemens Gamesa.
13 Feb 2019

Out of Academia, Into Industry: Printed Electronics Business
Printed, Flexible and Organic Electronics is a market worth $31.6 Billion in 2018, according to IDTechEx Research. The majority of that is for OLED displays, with glass-based versions now entering their golden age and foldable OLEDs and printed OLEDs now entering a phase of commercial growth. Then there is the near $2 Billion market for conductive ink used in many diverse applications and the $3.6 Billion market for sensors, mainly comprising of biosensors so far.
12 Feb 2019

Lithium-sulfur battery specialist Oxis Energy announces new investors
OXIS Energy is growing exponentially as several significant companies want to fund the latest lithium sulfur battery technology.