Electric vehicles

Fraunhofer IMS have developed a 3D flash lidar demo module (Owl), which is based on their patented CMOS SPAD photodetectors with on-chip ROIC.

Aeva offer lidar modules that contain a camera and motion sensor.

Blackmore Sensors and Analytics offer lidar modules. Blackmore were acquired by autonomous vehicle company Aurora (USA) in 2019, which was co-founded by Dr. Chris Urmson, who was previously the CTO of Google's autonomous vehicle division.

Benewake offer lidar modules. Benewake-Horn-X prototype was launched in 2019 as the company's first lidar dedicated to ADAS applications.

Beamagine are developing a lidar module. The company were founded as a spin out of Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, Spain) with the aim of commercialising lidar technology.

Fujitsu have developed lidar technology.

Presentation by Dr Peter Harrop to BIT Advanced Materials Conference Osaka Japan 23 July 2019

Analog Photonics are developing a lidar module, and are a spin out from MIT (USA).

MG Motor UK announces its entry into the zero-emissions vehicle market with a family friendly electric car. The MG ZS EV has been designed to bring EV technology to a wider audience represents a new chapter in the MG story.

This article provides an analysis of lidar and 3D sensor technologies for applications in machine autonomy, which includes advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Insights from interviews IDTechEx recently conducted with lidar players are also included.

Dr Peter Harrop explores Toyota's progress with pure electric vehicles in 2019.

EVs are and will remain by far the largest market for LIB. LIB supply commitments increase all the time with China the most ambitious. Thailand is getting into LIB battery making in a big way and may offer 50-100 GWh in 2030, helping to close the gap in supply vs demand. The Europeans may do the same eventually. However, just one successful EV car model can need 100GWh/year.

BMW China Automotive Trading Ltd and Tencent signed an agreement to work together on building the BMW Group China High Performance D³ platform. The BMW Group will use the platform to develop automated driving technologies and products which suit the complex local traffic conditions and meet local customer demands.

The two companies have also commenced discussions that cover a wide range of fields, including: supply of batteries, new technology development, product quality improvements, and the reuse and recycling of batteries.

Autotalks and China's Datang have successfully tested chipset-level interoperability of their respective solutions for C-V2X direct communication.

This is the second part of our article series on the potential use of metal sintering as a die attach paste material in electric vehicle (EV) power electronics (PE).

This series of articles focuses on the potential use of metal sintering pastes and materials in electric vehicle power electronics (PE). In the first part of this series (this article), we consider the key trends shaping power electronics.

In electric vehicles, China is not what it used to be. Electric bike demand collapsed five years ago, and electric bus demand followed two years ago. With electric buses, the reason was entirely a precipitous drop in government financial support of demand and production, the peak being accentuated by pulling forward to grab subsidies while there were available. In 2020 they will be zero but despite this, in 2027 China plans that full electrification of its bus fleet will be complete.

Urban mobility with purely electric drive can now also be experienced in hallmark MINI style. The new MINI Cooper SE combines sustainable mobility as the first solely electrically powered model of the British brand.

Stress makes cells age faster. Something that geneticists have long since demonstrated for the human body is also true for electric-vehicle battery cells. The older the batteries get, the lower their performance and capacity, and the shorter the range of the vehicle. To help batteries last longer, Bosch is developing new cloud services that supplement the individual vehicles' battery-management systems.