Electric vehicles

Founded in 2014, electric truck manufacturer FRAMO GmbH, whose headquarters are in Löbichau, Germany, are developing 7.5 tonne to 44 tonne full-electric trucks, for the construction industry, city logistics, municipal services and factory logistics.

India's first greenfield and largest shipbuilding yard, Cochin Shipyard Ltd, has selected Siemens Energy to provide advanced marine solutions for the country's first fleet of 23 boats to be equipped with electric propulsion drive trains with energy storage integration and vessel automation technologies.

ULEMCo Ltd based in Liverpool, UK, convert commercial vehicles to run on hydrogen, and presented at the Future Powertrains Conference on "Practical solutions for ultra-low & zero emission commercial vehicles".

Arcola Energy, a systems engineering company headquartered in London, are a Tier 1 supplier specialising in fuel cell and hydrogen technologies.

Dr James Edmondson interviewed Brian Engle from Amphenol Advanced Sensors to discuss their sensing technology for thermal runaway detection in electric vehicle batteries.

Progress is rapid with fixed-wing manned electric aircraft. The Bye Aerospace 2 and 4 seat battery-only e-Flyer got over $400 million in orders in one year and it is scalable.

Researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today's lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and consumer electronics.

eLoaded confirms its delivery promise for eLoaded charging technology of maximum 8 weeks. Stable supply chain and series production enables those short delivery times.

Dr James Edmondson from IDTechEx interviewed Arnaud Desrentes, CEO of Exoès and e-Mersiv to discuss e-Mersiv's immersion-cooling technology for electric vehicle batteries and their vision for applications to mass market.

Chanje, based in Los Angeles, California are an electric truck company providing medium-duty vehicles for the commercial last mile industry.

IDTechEx investigate the evolution of the hydrogen market and the development of the hydrogen economies of the major countries around the world in their new report "The Hydrogen Economy, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Production Methods".

With an aim to make India a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles, Ola signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu government for an investment of 2,400 crores in setting up its first factory in the state. Upon completion, the factory will create almost 10,000 jobs and will be the world's largest scooter manufacturing facility, which will initially have an annual capacity of 2 million units.

Lighter, more rigid, more compact: Porsche has produced its first complete housing for an electric drive using 3D printing. The engine-gearbox unit produced using the additive laser fusion process passed all the quality and stress tests without any problems.

A new electric vehicle finance package from Volkswagen Financial Services will enable more people to join the EV revolution and ensure that car retailers remain an integral part of ownership now and in the future.

This premium article covers some of the recalls and fire events recorded for EVs in previous years and 2020. This article will also discuss the causes and regulations around thermal runaway, as well as the impact it has on OEMs and the opportunities for material suppliers.

Lion Electric are based in Quebec, Canada. They were founded in 2008 and have established themselves as a leading player in the all-electric school bus market, delivering over 300 EV school buses in the US and Canada.

For ease of reading, we use the term transparent electronics to include translucent in this report. It embraces flexible, even stretchable devices but, for now, the main focus is on rigid ones.

The new IDTechEx report, "Transparent Electronics Materials, Applications, Markets 2021-2041" describes a market that will be well above $20 billion in 2041 with a substantial possible upside.

General Motors announced the opening of a 15,000-square-foot Additive Industrialization Center, a ground-up facility exclusively dedicated to productionizing 3D printing technology in the automotive industry. The AIC is the capstone of GM's expertise and increased investment in 3D printing over the last several years.

XOS Trucks (formally Thor Trucks) delivered and launched its first prototype pure electric class 8 semi-truck in December 2017, called the ET-One.