Electric vehicles

CabiBUS is a Swedish-based startup with a patented concept for an autonomous vehicle with a capacity for six passengers each with a private cabin.

Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is a startup based in California, US, working on commercialising high power dynamic wireless charging for trucks, buses, vans, and locomotives. IDTechEx spoke to its Founder and CTO, Dave Cook, to learn more about their technology and applications.

This premium article provides an update on the global Li-ion anode market, discussing the choice between natural and artificial graphite, 2021 sales volume, and introducing silicon as an anode material.

Sion Power are a US-based company developing Li-ion batteries using lithium metal anodes.

In a recent webinar, Arteco presented details on its new low electrical conductivity water-glycol coolant for electric vehicle (EV) applications.

Volcon are an all-electric, off-road powersports vehicle company developing and building electric two and four-wheel motorcycles and utility terrain vehicles (UTVs).

This premium article gives an introduction to microcars and looks into classifications and models across various regions.

While electric cars will remain the largest electric vehicle market for the foreseeable future in terms of battery demand and market revenue generation, most transport sectors are facing a transition. In this article, IDTechEx summarizes key developments in non-automotive sectors, showing each sector's global battery demand (in 2021) for relative scale.

Li-Metal Corp are an early stage manufacturer of lithium foils and anodes for rechargeable lithium batteries.

ChargedEVs is an online conference featuring various talks and presentations on the electric vehicle (EV) market. This premium article covers several presentations relating to the EV charging infrastructure.

This premium article explores electric vehicle (EV) fires, recalls, and regulations, including recalls and fires from key market players, a comparison of EV and internal combustion engine (ICE) fires, and various regional regulations.

ChargedEVs is an online series of presentations relating to the electric vehicle (EV) market. This premium article covers several presentations relating to materials and components for the EV battery pack, electric motors, and power electronics.

There has been considerable investment into cell production capacity over the past three to four years, as well as announcements of new gigafactories, especially in Europe and the US, but also in China. This premium article will present an outlook on global Li-ion cell manufacturing capacity.

The development of wireless charging systems for electric vehicles (EVs) has slowly picked up momentum over the past decade. This charging solution relies on the principle of resonant inductive coupling to achieve wireless power transfer (WPT) from a ground-based pad to a vehicle-fitted pad. Drivers should simply align their vehicles with the ground pad for charging to begin automatically, eliminating the need to plug in.

The multi-purpose Unmanned Ground Vehicle can be supervised in a fleet of vehicles by a single human operator. The vehicle uses a combination of vision systems and other technologies to sense the environment - to optimize tasks and allow intelligent and targeted application of inputs such as sprays. Growers will be able to rotate multiple tools on the highly adaptable and configurable agriculture platform, depending on the day's work - for jobs such as spraying, weed control, mulching, mowing and crop analysis.

Aurrigo is a UK-based startup developing autonomous and connected technologies. It has previously worked on a small four-person autonomous vehicle but now has a larger autonomous minibus in trials in the UK.

Alma Clean Power is building containerized SOFC modules for the marine, oil, and gas sectors. It is based out of Norway and is the first venture to be launched out of Clara Venture Labs.

Thermal LIVE is a virtual conference focusing on thermal management for electronics and other applications. Key topics this year were around thermal management technologies such as heat pipes, thermosiphons, and phase change materials. This premium article explores the event and some presentations from companies present.

The true description of graphene is that of a single atomic layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal array. However, the nanocarbon material landscape is much more complicated than this simple statement, with single-layer, few-layer, multi-layer, graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) and both graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) all to be considered as types of graphene.

This premium article looks into fuel cell manufacturers in China, including installed capacity, fuel cell system manufacturers, bus sales, fuel cell trucks, and more.