25 Feb 2011

Lithium polymer traction batteries, good or bad?
A large and increasing number of traction battery manufacturers are now offering what they call lithium polymer (LiPo) versions. Lithium polymer batteries are being eagerly adopted in a rapidly widening variety of applications. That includes in both pure electric and hybrid vehicles whether on land, in water or in the air. Battery manufacturers in Canada, the USA, Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere are involved.
27 Sep 2010

Huge sales opportunities for EVs and their components into East Asia
Those seeking to create multibillion dollar businesses in electric vehicles, their components, intellectual property and services should look at the world's largest market - East Asia. This region of the world purchases about 56% of the global market value of electric vehicles for land, sea and air and it will still be doing that in ten years time. For Western companies to take this huge opportunity seriously they first need to slay six myths.
1 Sep 2010

Traction battery price war
News is coming in that the predicted car traction battery shakeout has begun.
9 Aug 2010

Electric vehicles in India - Part six
Hero Electric, the leading Indian electric bike and scooter manufacturer, made over 70,000 e-bikes in 2009.
15 Jul 2010

Pure electric manned aircraft: Ukraine, Europe
In previous articles in EVR we have described the new electric stunt plane from EADS in France and the production pure electric sport plane from in China. Here we wind the clock back a little to show how the early work on pure electric aircraft is spawning many other very different aircraft, a common factor being the use of lightweight lithium polymer batteries that need no metal enclosure.
9 Jul 2010

Huge sales opportunities for EVs and their components into East Asia
Those seeking to create multibillion dollar businesses in electric vehicles, their components, intellectual property and services should look at the world's largest market - East Asia.
16 Jun 2010

Electric Vehicles- The Clever Ten Year Strategies
The electric vehicle business is over $33 billion today at ex factory prices but cars are less than half of that. As the market nearly quintuples over the next ten years, cars will rise to nearly 55% of the business but the devil is in the detail...