9 Dec 2010

Flexible graphene memristors
Graphene oxide is the latest flavor of memristor, and it works on bendable plastic
30 Nov 2010

Mercedes-Benz - The first fuel cell powered electric car
Mercedes-Benz presents the new B-Class F-CELL as the first fuel cell powered electric car produced under series production conditions in the USA. The first vehicles will be handed over to selected customers before the end of this year. In 2012 a total of around 70 of these environmentally friendly cars, which are being made available on a rental basis, will be operating on a daily basis in California.
7 Oct 2010

Spanish company Izaro works on electric powered GTe supercar
Future electric charge of sport: GTte Izar
21 Sep 2010

New Hyundai BlueOn pure electric car
The government hopes that by 2020, 20 per cent of passenger cars in South Korea will be solely electric. Subsidies and tax incentives to promote sales of electric vehicles will be offered once the vehicles begin rolling off production lines.
11 Aug 2010

Hybrid and pure electric tugboats
In 2008, GE and the C-MAR Group partnered to develop new hybrid technology for tugboats.
6 Aug 2010

Electric vehicles in India - Part five
About one million cycle rickshaws ply the Indian roads carrying about 3-4 billion passenger-km/year.
5 Aug 2010

Electric vehicles in India - Part four
Mahindra will probably offer the first production diesel hybrid in a light duty application in the USA. So far the only diesel hybrids on American roads are the big transit buses now running many cities.
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.
14 Jul 2010

Military electric vehicles: US hybrids - part two
Hybrid electric drive systems employ energy storage through high energy and power density batteries to supply vehicle systems and support the main engine at peak operation.
9 Jul 2010

Skyline Solar appoints Thomas Rohrs CEO
T Rohrs brings more than 30 Years of semiconductor, energy and technology management experience to Skyline; Bob MacDonald to remain as CTO
22 Jun 2010

Taiwan goes up market with EVs
Taiwan makes electric bicycles but mainly with most of the added value being in China, often by collaboration, in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers.
2 Jun 2010

Flexible and hybrid electronics
Flexible displays, lighting and solar panels may open the way to new kinds of consumer products and architectural features, but the real driver of the current up swell of interest in flexible, printed or hybrid electronics technology is manufacturers seeking ways to reduce production costs of large-area devices.
16 Apr 2010

Evidence shows memristors are capable of performing logic functions
Evidence shows memristors are capable of performing logic functions
9 Apr 2010

Around the world in a solar plane
The Solar Impulse is a revolutionary concept that will push back the limits of our knowledge in the field of materials, energy management and the man-machine interface. It is an aircraft with an inordinate wingspan for its weight and of an aerodynamic quality that to this day has not been equaled, capable of tremendous resistance, despite its light weight.
24 Mar 2010

The truly integrated circuit is printed and flexible
For 40 years, so called integrated circuits have integrated little more than transistors, diodes and sensors onto one piece of material but now there are much more integrated circuits arriving where most electrical and electronic components are co-deposited on flexible substrates. Those flexible substrates are key, because this new electronics will be affordable and desirable on everything from apparel to human skin and electrical and consumer packaged goods, where surfaces are only rarely flat.
11 Dec 2009

Emerging display technologies and innovations
On December 10, the UK Knowledge Transfer Network had a meeting in Grove Oxfordshire on Emerging Display Technologies and Innovations. About 35 people attended. Professor Ian Underwood of Edinburgh University in Scotland described work on microemissive OLED displays under the title "Hypoled - Next Generation Display Platform ."
18 Nov 2009

Printed electronics needs new design rules
The first cars looked like horse drawn carriages - suboptimal and using the design rules of the past. So it is with most printed electronics today. It is frequently burdened with old fashioned components like silicon chips, cylindrical capacitors, chip resistors and button batteries.