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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - Part three

Electric vehicles (EVs) are free running vehicles that partly or wholly use electricity for traction, whether by land, sea or air.

Where art thou OLED?

David Fyfe, the ex CEO of CDT who now works as a consultant for its parent company Sumitomo, gave a presentation on the OLED market at LOPE-C this week. Speaking to the history of OLEDs, he says that LCDs have drastically closed the performance gap, perhaps fuelled by the threat of OLEDs.

Electric cars - learning from the past

In 1880, they said that the future of the car was electric. In April 2010, Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company said "It appears that the biggest game-changer will be electric vehicles."

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.

Solvay and Thinfilm enter commercial agreement

Solvay Solexis (Solvay) will begin to market its newly developed SolveneTM polymer for applications in printed electronics with its partner Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm).

IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase passes 4000 RFID projects

By a big margin. the world's largest database of RFID projects is the IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase. It has just surpassed 4000 projects in 111 countries. Containing technical details, descriptive text, 770 company RFID slide shows and audio, ...

Record breaking pure electric motorcycles

KillaCycle is the world's fastest electric motorcycle. It achieved zero to 60 mph in less than one second and 176 MPH (282 km/h) using A123 batteries.

EnOcean reaps recognition

The IDTechEx Energy Harvesting Award 2010 has been presented to EnOcean for its development in the field of thermoelectric energy use.

Some impressions of Energy Harvesting Europe

The IDTechEx Energy Harvesting Europe event in Munich had its first day on 26 May. Here are some impressions from the first day.

Energy Harvesting Europe and WSN/RTLS Award Winners

This week more than 250 people attended the second annual IDTechEx event on Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks & Real Time Locating Systems. These two events are co-located given the overlap in topic and attendees were delighted with the breadth of subjects that were covered. The exhibition had trebled from last year to 20 exhibitors.

Kleenspeed Technologies goes mainstream

KleenSpeed was founded as recently as 2007 to develop pure electric vehicle technology and intellectual property in the NASA Ames Technology Park in Mountain View California. Already it is selling the fastest EV race cars at about 150 mph for 45 minutes, rather like the Mission Motors Mission One pure electric motorcycle made not far away. A 200 mph Formula One version is next in line.

International renewable electricity and EVs

On 21 May, the UK International Research Centre had a one day meeting in London on "International Renewable Electricity: An Essential System?"

Laminar batteries are better

Laminar batteries are increasingly adopted in electronics because they have better cooling, damage tolerance and performance in respect of charge and discharge speed when optimally designed for this shape. Companies such as Cymbet and Infinite Power Solutions already supply small laminar lithium batteries for such applications as backup power for electronics and some even continue to operate if a nail is driven through them.

CAP-XX to Speak at Energy Harvesting Europe 2010 & Sensors Expo 2010

Mr. Pierre Mars, vice president of quality and applications engineering for CAP-XX Ltd, will speak at both the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe and Sensors Expo conferences on the power management challenges of battery-free wireless sensor networks (WSNs) powered by environmentally-harvested energy.

Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks, RTLS Preview

Only the IDTechEx "Energy Harvesting and Storage" events are paired with "Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS", covering the systems most in need of energy harvesting.

New news and analysis portal on Electric Vehicles launched

IDTechEx launches a new web journal - Electric Vehicles Research.

Wireless sensor networks - we are getting there

Suddenly tiny broad band vibration harvesters, transparent film photovoltaics and many other forms of harvesting become sufficient and the 20 year node looks possible.

New advances to be presented at Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS Europe

Further information is coming in on the remarkable advances and new analysis that will be announced at "Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS Europe" in Munich 26-27 May, which is twinned with "Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe".