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Saft

IDTechEx spoke with Christelle Nay, Communication Manager at Saft, about their engagement in the battery industry for use in industrial, commercial and large scale marine vessels applications.

Webinar - Commercialization of thin-film, flexible, printed batteries

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 14 June 2016: The Road to Commercialization of Thin-film, Flexible and Printed Batteries.

Flying cars: needed or possible? Part two

The arguments for flying cars are style, convenience and cost saving; the stuff of fiction for 100 years.

Lead-acid Batteries: The Beginning of the End

In May 2016, China's largest lead acid battery maker Chaowei admitted the domestic lead-acid E bike battery market has stopped growing and will only remain stable for the next five years.

Which Electric Truck Powertrain Wins?

How will trucks clean up their act to avoid becoming illegal under the impending 2025 and 2030 legislation? This article discusses the different approaches.

Flying cars: needed or possible? Part one

The arguments for flying cars are style, convenience and cost saving; the stuff of fiction for 100 years. Park a car and a plane together in your garage.

Will conductive inks help wearables go truly wearable?

The first generation of wearable devices are constructed using mature, rigid technologies put inside a new box that can be worn. These are often bulky devices that are not truly wearable in the sense that our clothes are. This is, however, beginning to change, albeit slowly.

Copprint

Copprint is a start-up offering copper inks. It is reporting fantastic initial results. Its initial results suggest that it can achieve 50% bulk conductivity whilst only requiring a short 2-second anneal using a simple oven system at 125-250C.

Lead acid batteries: delaying the inevitable

IDTechEx finds that C category cars and above will have to be mild hybrids with 48V lithium-ion batteries if they are to meet the tough new carbon dioxide emissions.

Aztrong

AzTrong is a Taiwanese graphene company strong focused on end applications. It has so far raised $6m and is scaling up an rGO process and targets the energy storage, thermal interface material and e-textile applications.

Plastic and flexible OLED displays market to reach $18bn by 2020

IDTechEx Research has just released new forecasts for the OLED display market.

Polymatech

Rachel Gordon interviewed Polymatech's Business Development Manager Ehsan Khan about their work in Thermal Interface Materials.

Advanc3d Materials

Advanc3d sell off-the-shelf and customised materials for FDM and SLS 3D printers. Rachel Gordon interviewed their Managing Director, Francois Minec.

CAFE Tenth Electric Aircraft Symposium Report: overview

This annual event by the delightful staff of the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation CAFE took place May 19-20 at San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront.

CAFE Tenth Electric Aircraft Symposium Report May 2016

IDTechEx attended the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation event in San Francisco on May 19-20. This article provides a fuller overview of what we learnt from the event.

2015 - A great year for large-sized lithium-ion batteries

Electric bus is a game changer in the battery market.

Heraeus - 3D printing metals

Heraeus supply gas atomised metal powders for 3D printing. From Q3 2016 they intend to offer high melting alloys such as Zr, Mo, Ta and Nb.

Lithium-ion batteries will dominate the battery business

The brand new report from IDTechEx Research, Lithium-ion Batteries 2016-2026, finds that at around $140 billion in 2026, the lithium-ion battery business will dominate the battery business.

$88 million in series E financing for OLED leader Kateeva

The new Kateeva investors are: BOE, Cybernaut Venture, GP Capital Shanghai, Redview Capital, and TCL Capital, all located in China. They join existing investors that include: Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Sigma Partners, Spark Capital, Madrone Capital Partners, DBL Partners, New Science Ventures, and VEECO Instruments, Inc.