Electric vehicles

Due to the labor shortage and decreasing costs of hardware, using robots to serve people has gained significant momentum over the past decade, with Tesla unveiling their humanoid robot "Optimus" at the electric vehicle maker's "AI Day" event last week.

Wisk Aero has revealed the world's first self-flying, all-electric, four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing air taxi. Generation 6 represents the first-ever candidate for type certification by the FAA of an autonomous eVTOL.

Our Next Energy are a US start-up developing advanced battery technology for electric vehicles. IDTechEx spoke with them (Samuel Haberl, Technical Product Manager) at the Battery Show North America 2022.

This premium article covers the ITS World Congress, which took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center between 18th and 22nd September. The conference spans many autonomous technologies, from deployments of vehicles to infrastructure and developing connected vehicle/infrastructure applications. This article will explore IDTechEx's key learnings from the conference.

Höegh Autoliners has joined the First Movers Coalition to send a strong market demand signal for the emerging technologies essential for a net-zero transition and has committed to running at least 5 % of deep sea operations on either green ammonia or green methanol by 2030. Led by the World Economic Forum and the US Government, the First Movers Coalition targets hard-to-abate sectors including aluminium, aviation, chemicals, concrete, shipping, steel, and trucking, which are responsible for 30% of global emissions.

This premium article looks into immersion cooling for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, exploring key market players, factors determining immersion fluid choices, SWOT analysis, and more.

Beaming solar power could help Europe access more renewable energies, in an independent way. Airbus has now demonstrated how this new technological concept could work.

Two bespoke Electric MOKEs raised £450,000 at auction at Monaco Yacht Show with all funds going to support the crucial efforts of the Blue Marine Foundation in restoring the world's oceans back to health.

This premium article provides an update on the state of robotaxi testing and services and highlights the current leaders in the US and China. It details some of the vehicle and powertrain choices that the leaders are making and gives a market share estimate of electric autonomous vehicles in California. It then gives more information about the state of electrification in autonomous heavy-duty vehicles.

All new passenger cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs sold in New York State to be zero emissions by 2035. This is a crucial regulatory step to achieving significant greenhouse gas emission reductions from the transportation sector and is complemented by new and ongoing investments also announced, including electric vehicle infrastructure progress, zero-emission vehicle incentives, and ensuring New York's communities benefit from historic federal climate change investments.

At a recent webinar (28/09/22), UL Solutions presented its methods for testing the thermal runaway and fire safety of battery enclosure materials. These include the Torch and Grit (TaG) test and the Battery Enclosure Thermal Runaway (BETR) test that has been in use for the past several months.

IDTechEx attended the Battery Show and Electric Vehicle Expo North America 2022 that ran from 12th-16th September 2022. It is one of the largest battery-related conferences worldwide with a focus on electric vehicle applications and technologies. This premium article is the second of two articles covering key learnings from the conference and exhibition. Part 1 gives an overview of key conference themes (sustainability and security of supply) and cell level developments (solid-state and lithium metal, silicon, lithium-sulphur). Part 2 will focus on materials for battery packs and other advanced material developments.

IDTechEx attended the Battery Show and Electric Vehicle Expo North America 2022 that ran from 12th-16th September 2022. It is one of the largest battery-related conferences worldwide with a focus on electric vehicle applications and technologies. This premium article is the first of two articles covering key learnings from the conference and exhibition. Part 1 will give an overview of key conference themes (sustainability and security of supply) and cell level developments (solid-state and lithium metal, silicon, lithium-sulphur). Part 2 will focus on materials for battery packs and other advanced material developments.

Tata Motors announced the launch of the Tiago.ev.

Ballard Power Systems announced an order from Stadler Rail AG, a leading manufacturer of rolling stock, for the supply of six 100 kW FCmoveTM-HD+ fuel cell engines to power the first hydrogen train in the United States.

Ohmio is a New Zealand-based autonomous roboshuttle developer, working on a ground-up, purpose-built automated transport solution.

General Electric (GE) are experts in supplying and integrating high-power electrical systems up to 100MW in ships.

As electric vehicles grow in popularity, the spotlight shines more brightly on some of their remaining major issues. Researchers are tackling two of the bigger challenges facing electric vehicles: limited range and slow recharging.

Rogers has been a major player in providing compression pads for electric vehicle (EV) batteries (specifically pouch cells that expand and contract significantly under operation). IDTechEx spoke to Rogers to learn more about two of its new products, EVExtend (a new compression pad) and ProCell EV Firewall (a compression pad with fire protection included).

Bell's next generation five seater helicopter, the Bell 505, fueled with Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel took off at Seletar Airport in Singapore for a demonstration flight. This is the first ever helicopter flight fueled with SAF in Southeast Asia.