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Large Opportunity for 48VMH Medium and Large Trucks?

Like the car equivalents, 48V mild hybrid trucks do not start as electric vehicles (driving the wheels electrically some or all of the time) but they are headed that way.

Walmart Canada 100 percent alternatively powered vehicles by 2028

Walmart Canada announced plans to power its fleet using 100 per cent alternative power by 2028. To meet that goal, the company has announced plans to acquire an additional 30 Tesla 18-wheeler semi-trucks, building on its original order of 10 trucks in November 2017.

Nuvve

Nuvve is a San Diegan company that provides the tools that facilitate 'vehicle to grid' (or 'v2g') services for electric vehicles, with a focus on the software aggregation platform rather than the hardware (bi-directional chargers). The company is global and has received major investment from utilities like EDF Renewables.

More torque for hydrogen-powered vehicles

IDTechEx Research has just published a new report 'Fuel Cell Vehicles 2019-2029'. Fuel cells are commercially successful in stationary applications but commercially unsuccessful in vehicles, beyond a few thousand purchased for material handling vehicles, notably forklifts.

TransPower

New Zealand's first grid-scale battery storage facility

New Zealand's first grid-scale battery storage facility was launched in Auckland. Tesla's Powerpack battery is part of an ambitious project to test the direct integration of battery energy storage with New Zealand's electricity grid.

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.

TuSimple

EVNAViQ crushes range anxiety

The lack of available accurate navigation and trip-planning solutions for electric vehicles has long been a contributing factor toward range anxiety - and is delaying large-scale adoption of electric vehicles among the general public.

SPD Control Systems

MBL-Energy certification for solar carports at California schools

MBL-Energy has received the first California Division of State Architects pre-check certification issued under the newly released 2016 CBC compliance. This certification will enable MBL-Energy to quickly move forward on the design and construction of parking canopies for California public schools and other public works by reducing the permitting approval time from up to one year down to five weeks, potentially saving schools thousands of dollars in energy costs during the process.

Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite properties

Scientists have discovered electronic properties in quantum-scale devices that are likely to impact the growing field of low-cost perovskite based optoelectronics.

IPG Photonics Corporation

IPG Photonics are the global leader of the fiber laser market. IDTechEx first had a discussion with IPG Photonics at Laser Manufacturing of Lightweight Structures 2017 (UK) in November 2017. This was followed by a second extended meeting at SPIE Photonics West 2018 (USA) in January 2018 and an interview in June 2018.

Hawaii off grid dream home

Successful entrepreneur Graham Hill has built an off-grid home in Hawaii.

Batteries and trucks go after the e-bus success story

In a recent press release, Volvo Trucks has unveiled its first all-electric truck for commercial use - the Volvo FL Electric. This piece of news is but the first in a series of announcements that started in November 2017 with the Tesla Semi, and has since seen other industry players like Daimler, Cummins, and emerging companies like Nikola present the advantages of converting the trucking industry from diesel engines to electric powertrains.

UPS to deploy new state-of-the-art EVs in London and Paris

UPS is working with UK-based technology firm ARRIVAL to develop a state-of-the-art pilot fleet of 35 electric delivery vehicles to be trialed in London and Paris.

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.

Cambridge Business Insight Forums - Off Grid

On the 21 June 2018, IDTechEx is very pleased to invite you to our Business & Technology Insight Forums at the prestigious Wolfson College in Cambridge (UK), to learn more about Off Grid Energy Independence in electricity.

How deep learning is helping the blind 'see'

Guide dogs are great for helping people who are blind or visually impaired navigate the world. But try getting a dog to read aloud a sign or tell you how much money is in your wallet.

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.

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