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Le Mans racing car uses OLED rear view mirrors

In this year's 24 hours Le Mans race (June 12-13), the ORECA01 car from French racing team Oreca will be using rear view mirrors with an integrated thin film encapsulated Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) on the back.

General Motors ventures gets ambitious

General Motors (GM) has established a new subsidiary designed to help the company identify and develop innovative technologies in the automotive and transportation sector, called General Motors Ventures.

Harvesting by a thread

Researchers at Cetemmsa, outside Barcelona, are taking materials science to the textile sector. They've developed conducting threads that heat up or become illuminated in response to a charge; these might be used in sports applications.

Electric Vehicles in the UK - Part four

The component industry serving the electric vehicle industry is very extensive though it mainly consists of small companies

Printed nanocrystals could offer lowest cost per watt

Solexant's innovative printed nanocrystal technology platform has the potential to deliver the lowest cost per watt in the solar industry.

Nokia launches bicycle cellphone charger

Nokia has recently launched a kit that enables mobile phones to be charged from a kit which uses the kinetic energy of a bicycle.

Electric Vehicles and the Smart Grid

The term Smart Grid has been used for decades to mean anything from "a ring main for a country" to the far more responsive, interactive, scalable and intrusive electricity distribution systems of the future.

Copper nanowires enable bendable displays, solar cells

Pin-like copper structures self-assemble in solution

Imec reduces cost of germanium-based thermophotovoltaic cells

Imec presents an improved processing technique for germanium-based thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells resulting in significant reduction of cell cost, an essential step to develop a market for thermophotovoltaic applications.

Walls of light

Organic LEDs are extremely thin and lightweight surface-emitting lights that will radically change the way we provide illumination. Although mostly confined to labs, OLED technology is moving toward commercialization. In 2009 Osram became the first manufacturer to put an OLED tile on the market.

WEG's new traction motor

WEG's new traction motor saves 400kgs in weight on latest generation trolley buses, improving power & economy

Piezo and pyroelectric energy sources

At the recent IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe conference in Munich, Dr. Nantakan MUENSIT, associate professor at the Material Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Hat Yai, Thailand spoke on "Applications of Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Materials as Microsources of Energy".

Greenpeak names Hans Rohrer as Chairman of the Board

GreenPeak Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor company, has announced that semiconductor industry figure Hans Rohrer has been appointed Chairman of the Board.

Electric Vehicles in the UK - Part two

Nissan of Japan has been proud of its conventional car manufacturing facility in Sunderland UK because it is one of the most efficient in the world.

Times Square's first 100% solar powered billboard

The 6,000 square foot solar powered billboard, which is 47 feet high by 126 feet long, is the first billboard in Times Square to be totally lit by solar energy.

Electric Vehicles in the UK - Part One

The UK has now produced a host of small companies involved in most aspects of electric vehicles and their components and some long established companies have successfully moved into the field.

Nantennas and metamaterials for EV photovoltaics

Photovoltaics could be applied to the whole of the outside and inside of the car, even over the lights and the windows

ZigBee for Energy Harvesting and Very Low Power

The ZigBee standards lead to electronic systems that are inherently self organizing (self calibrating) and self healing and such devices use much less power and can be deployed in larger numbers than the original WiFi and Bluetooth options. However, we now have low power WiFi and Bluetooth and many proprietary protocols for wireless sensor networks that use much less power than ZigBee, power being a constant worry because WSN needs so much electricity and yet the devices usually need to be small. So what are the ZigBee enthusiasts doing to stay relevant?

UCT open up new markets with printed nanosilicon on paper

Professors Margit Härting and David Britton at the University of Cape Town in South Africa have been working on the printing of nano silicon electronic components in parallel with Kovio in California and others.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - Part three

Electric vehicles (EVs) are free running vehicles that partly or wholly use electricity for traction, whether by land, sea or air.