Update interview
19 Mar 2025

Ampace: UPS
Ampace, headquartered in China, develops Li-ion battery technologies for energy storage systems, micro electric vehicles, and industrial power tools. The company is commercializing LFP UPS (uninterruptible power supplies) for data centers.
19 Mar 2025

Radar-Enhanced Safety for Advancing Autonomy
Front and side radars serve distinct yet complementary roles in ADAS, making them essential for autonomous vehicles. IDTechEx explores the latest radar developments and explores autonomy leveling up, with Level 2+ asserting itself within the US and Europe's autonomous vehicle markets.
19 Mar 2025

The Evolution of the EV Battery Cover Towards Composites
IDTechEx discusses the pros and cons of composite EV battery covers, as well as innovations, current market adoption and an outlook for future adoption.
19 Mar 2025

Anode-less Lithium Metal: A Gateway to Maximizing Energy Density
Lithium metal batteries will form a significant portion of next-generation electric vehicle batteries. However, increasingly, lithium metal battery developers are taking the anode-less approach, constructing cells without lithium metal foils at the anode to reduce costs. Anode-less designs are poised to become a primary focus of commercialization for lithium metal battery developers.
Update interview
19 Mar 2025

Toyota
Toyota is an important player in the area of solid-state batteries and this profile provides the latest updates on its work in this space.
Update
19 Mar 2025

The Mosaic Company: Mosaic Biosciences
Mosaic Biosciences is the biologicals division of The Mosaic Company, a leading producer of phosphate and potash fertilizers. This profile highlights the company's agricultural biologicals.
Full profile interview
19 Mar 2025

Syklo
Syklo is a Finnish circular economy company specializing in innovative waste management solutions and the production of high-quality biocomposites and recycled plastics. Its services include waste reception, processing, and the development of sustainable materials. It plans to build Finland's largest plastic recycling plant in Hyvinkää by autumn 2025, aiming to increase the nation's plastic recycling capacity by up to 50%.
Background
18 Mar 2025

Arkema: Elium Resin
Arkema is a multinational materials company, specialising in the supply of a range of materials for multiple industries, including energy, automotive, sports and health, etc. IDTechEx attended Arkema's stand at JEC World 2025 to find out more about its sustainable materials for the wind energy industry.
18 Mar 2025

Webinar: Understanding the Critical Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries
Thursday 3 April 2025 - Understanding the Critical Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries: Trends in Demand, Supply, and Sustainability; An overview of materials in lithium-ion batteries; Critical battery materials demand trends; Trends in battery mineral mining and extraction; Carbon emission profiles of battery raw materials; Global raw materials supply outlooks; The prospects of deep-sea mining
Topic overview
18 Mar 2025

Sodium-ion Market Updates From China
China is at the forefront of sodium-ion battery (Na-ion) development, with strong government support, industry investment, and technological innovation driving its growth. Home to the majority of Na-ion companies, China leads in patents (84% of global filings) and is accelerating commercialization through capital alliances and large-scale production plans. The 14th Five-Year Plan prioritizes Na-ion research, with a 100 MWh-class energy storage system targeted by 2025. Key players like CATL, BYD, and HiNa are scaling production, but actual output remains low—0.9 GWh in 2023 to 2.4 GWh in 2024, well below the 50-100 GWh targets for 2025. Scaling challenges include cell quality, energy density, and cycle life improvements, while falling LFP battery costs and supply chain uncertainties add further hurdles. Despite these obstacles, China's Na-ion industry is rapidly evolving, positioning the technology as a viable low-cost, sustainable alternative to lithium-ion.
Background
17 Mar 2025

HyIron
HyIron is a German startup that has developed a unique process for hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron ore, which is used to produce green iron. HyIron is building its first commercial project in Namibia.
Background
17 Mar 2025

Lixea
Lixea is a company based in Sweden which is producing biochemicals and materials from next-generation feedstocks such as agricultural and wood waste.
Full profile interview
17 Mar 2025

United Launch Alliance: SMART
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a major provider of rocket launch services. This profile focuses on SMART (Sensible Modular Autonomous Return Technology), which is currently in development and aims to enable the reusability of the Vulcan Centaur's two BE-4 booster engines.
17 Mar 2025

Small Sensors Make Big Waves - IDTechEx Explores Quantum Sensors
Quantum sensors get their name from their ability to measure on a quantum scale the smallest known parts of the universe, including atoms and other tiny particles, some of which were unknown before the introduction of this technology. IDTechEx's report, "Quantum Sensors Market 2025-2045: Technology, Trends, Players, Forecasts" provides an in-depth analysis of the technology by type and application, forecasting the quantum sensor market to reach US$2.2 billion in 2045, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.4%.
17 Mar 2025

Will Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Boom or Bust in the Next 20 years?
While battery electric vehicles (BEVs) continue to grow in model availability, sales numbers, and available charging infrastructure, the same cannot be said about fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). IDTechEx reviews the on-road fuel cell electric vehicle market and assesses whether passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, buses, and medium and heavy-duty trucks will use fuel cell technology in 20 years.
Update
17 Mar 2025

Syngenta
Syngenta is a global agricultural technology company with headquarters in Switzerland. This profile focuses on its agricultural biologicals.
Full profile interview
14 Mar 2025

MIPS Tech LLC
MIPS Tech LLC, headquartered in San Jose, California, specializes in scalable RISC processor IP. MIPS is currently targeting integration at the edge, with physical AI, with RISC-V IP for processors handling sensor input, processors for delivering mixture-of-expert AI model acceleration, and high-performance compute for electrification, industrial automation, and autonomous platforms.
14 Mar 2025

Green Computing Ecosystems: IDTechEx Explores Sustainable Data Centers
Data centers can be likened to an ecosystem of computing facilities that contain many facets required to store and handle data. IDTechEx's latest report, "Sustainability for Data Centers 2025-2035: Green Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players", unpacks efforts being made in the data center sector towards increased sustainability in response to the rising CO2 emissions from the development of AI.
Full profile interview
14 Mar 2025

Cylib
Cylib is a German start-up focused on developing Li-ion battery (LIB) recycling technologies.