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All charged up

Ability to recharge rapidly could make electric cars more acceptable to consumers, says MIT student team.

Darmstadt University of Technology & Heidelberg extend joint research

Functional printing - new print applications launched for innovative print products Print applications for printed electronics of the future

North America's first public-use quick-charge station for evs

Electric vehicles can charge up in 20 to 30 minutes.

Tanfield Smith Electric Vehicles consolidates for growth

The board of electric vehicle company Tanfield has signed a non-binding agreement to consolidate its UK and US electric vehicle businesses, Smith Electric Vehicles UK and Smith Electric Vehicles US. Its US arm, SEVUS, also plans to float on the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as the first half of 2011, Tanfield said.

RFID card with display controls pavilion's people flow

The VisualRFID project consortium has developed an RFID card with a display to control the pavilion's people flow and elevators in a completely new way.

Using both light and heat of solar radiation to produce electricity

Engineers at Stanford University have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods.

GE to develop new bio-inspired sensor

Replicating nanostructures from the wings of Morpho butterflies, GE's sensors would enable highly selective, near-instantaneous detection of chemical threats GE's sensing platform could create other industrial and healthcare applications, including emissions monitoring at power plants, water purification and food safety testing and breath analysis for disease detection

Enthusiasm for first land, water and air electric vehicle event

BAE Systems has just agreed to speak at IDTechEx event "Future of Electric Vehicles" in San Jose December 7-8.

eMagin building next generation OLED deposition machine

eMagin Corporation a leader in OLED microdisplays and virtual imaging technologies has signed an agreement to build its first production OLED deposition machine, one that will leverage the latest advances in the Company's proprietary manufacturing processes.

New way to make energy harvesting nanowires

Researchers Florian Mumm and Pawel Sikorski at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim think the shimmering sea mouse may hold a key to a new way of creating nanoscale electronics.

Printed cholesterol sensor with printed batteries and printed display

The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute is developing a cholesterol test using printed electronics.

The future of electric aircraft

It can only fly for 15 minutes but it is a breakthrough all the same. Improved batteries have finally made a manned electric helicopter a reality.

Tesla & Toyota formalize agreement to develop electric version of RAV4

TESLA MOTORS, INC. (Tesla) and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) have signed an agreement to initiate the development of an electric version of the RAV4 as announced in May of this year by Elon Musk and Akio Toyoda.

Technique to turn windows into power generators

An international team of scientists and industrialists is to meet at the University of Leicester to develop of a revolutionary new technique for harnessing green energy.

UK's first printed lighting panel to start in November 2010

An initiative to develop low-cost OLED lighting in the UK has secured government funding and will officially start in early November.

Real Time Locating and Wireless Sensor Networks - Rapid Advances

In the past, too much use of RFID has involved sensing items and conveyances only when they pass very near to the occasional interrogator. Heroic assumptions are then made about what happened in between. Was it destroyed, perhaps by overheating? Is it still there? Is it intact?

Autonomous robot that eats sewage

Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory are working on an autonomous robot, dubbed EcoBot III.

Plastic Logic moves on to next generation product

Revised product strategy to bring industry's first advanced device using plastic electronics technology to market.

Coulomb's 1st ChargePoint America EV charging stations

Coulomb Technologies unveils first ChargePoint America Electric Vehicle charging stations in San Jose, California

Teijin acquires NanoGram Corporation

Teijin Limited has wholly acquired NanoGram Corporation, a Silicon Valley company specializing in novel nanomaterials for the development of silicon inks with semiconductor properties.