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China is where most of the hybrid and pure electric buses will be made and sold over the coming decade.

Plastic 3D printing has its place in prototyping and education, but 3D printing in metal is being used to manufacture parts in a wide variety of industries. Metals are the fastest-growing segment of 3D printing, with printer sales growing at 48% and material sales growing at 32%, according to the brand new IDTechEx report 3D Printing of Metals 2015-2025.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 18 August 2015.

Each week we come across brilliant new technologies from companies and research institutes and we want to help such enterprises showcase their products to the audiences of our events - which are typically the largest in the world on the topic.

Announcing a new initiative - the IDTechEx Launchpad.

Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems harness the stronger winds above the biggest wind turbines on earth. They use a small fraction of the materials and are quieter and more easily moved and commissioned so they have great potential for both off and on-grid use.

Each week we come across brilliant new technologies from companies and research institutes and we want to help such enterprises showcase their products to the audiences of our events - which are typically the largest in the world on the topic.

Leading players in the graphene industry have contributed to our series of articles.

Buses are now a crucible of change, often adopting new technology before cars.

High Power Energy Harvesting: Off-Grid 10W-100kW 2016-2026 is the title of a new IDTechEx report examining a newly significant off-grid energy market.

At IDTechEx we have invited a number of leading players in the nanocarbon industry to write opinion pieces, reflecting on their produces, latest research, market insight, and commercialisation experience. We will be releasing these articles over the next few weeks.

This week LG Display announced that it will invest One Trillion Won for a flexible OLED display plant in Korea. Why?

Totally different. Everything that constitutes a hybrid or pure electric vehicle will change beyond recognition, advises analyst group IDTechEx.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 4 August 2015.

IDTechEx the leader in market research and events on emerging technologies has announced the launch of a new event on sensors. The conference and exhibition will take place on November 18-19, 2015 in Santa Clara, CA.

On May 19th 2015, IDTechEx attended a conference aboard HMS Belfast in London, bringing together senior military innovation personnel with acting servicemen and technical innovators in relevant fields. The topic for discussion was wearable technology for the military.

In 2012 a tsunami of media hype began around consumer 3D printing that turned a lacklustre 30-year-old technology into a household name and created massive growth in the industry even among large established players.

The 3D printing industry continues to go from strength to strength. So much so that, depending upon your definition of "robot", half of the market value for industrial robotics will be robots working as 3D printers by 2026.

In this instalment of our graphene series we discuss commercialising flexible graphene supercapacitors.

Another instalment in our series on the graphene industry.

International and national assessments of the global electricity storage market have been hindered by uncertainty about which technologies and market segments to include. A central question for this roadmap is whether storage is used to support the integration of renewables or for other purposes.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.

Many land, water and airborne electric vehicles harvest all the energy they need. They never plug in. It is the way of the future.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums. Taking place at the UDX Conference Center on 29 September, this expert-led Insight Forum will provide you with critical business intelligence and the latest insights into the 3D printing market.

Perovskite solar cells are a breath of fresh air into the emerging photovoltaic technology landscape.

These forums will both address the business and technologies involved - providing significant market data to allow you to understand these complex landscapes.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.

Another in our series of articles on graphene.

The third in our series of articles on the graphene industry.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 23 July 2015.

The second in our series of articles by leading players in the graphene industry, discusses progress with the use of graphene and graphene oxide in Li Sulphur batteries.

At IDTechEx we have invited a number of leading players in the graphene industry to write opinion pieces, reflecting on their produces, latest research, market insight, and commercialisation experience. We will be releasing these articles over the next few weeks.

We are sometimes asked how we choose the topics in which we specialise. There are several answers but certainly we choose topics that overlap and address the major technological and societal megatrends of this century. Four particularly come to mind.

There are three important technological megatrends for vehicles that are now coming increasingly important. They are shaping what is designed and the market positioning of new vehicles from type of customer targeted to the location where the vehicles will be used.

Wireless networking is rapidly pervading society, not least in China, where allied topic RFID is lifting off very rapidly.

In the study the new battery technology employs use of graphene on the silicon surface and that confers volume expansion leading to extended battery life.