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Here comes China - part one

China makes and uses over 90% of the world's e-bikes. It also makes pure electric forklifts and other heavy industrial EVs, though with little attempt to export them as yet.

Project Oscar develops organic photovoltaics

OSCAR, short for 'Organic Solar Cells by ARmor', is a project carried out by a consortium of five companies, including Armor (initiator and project leader), INES (Institut National de l'Energie Solaire), LCPO (Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques), Plasto SAS and Amcor Flexibles Europe & Americas

Spire matches world record for solar cell efficiency

Spire Corporation, an American global solar company providing capital equipment and turnkey production lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules and cells, has announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor, LLC, has matched the current efficiency record for a concentrator solar cell.

Green vehicle expo heads to Shanghai

Green Vehicle Expo heads to Shanghai June 17-19.

White Amethyst and White Sapphire intelligent OLED light

E2M Technology has launched two OLED systems for OLED lighting applications, White Amethyst™ and White Sapphire™.

U.S. scientists design smart underpants that could save lives

A team of U.S. scientists has designed some new men's briefs that may be comfortable, durable and even stylish but, unlike most underpants, may be able to save lives.

Electric Vehicles- The Clever Ten Year Strategies

The electric vehicle business is over $33 billion today at ex factory prices but cars are less than half of that. As the market nearly quintuples over the next ten years, cars will rise to nearly 55% of the business but the devil is in the detail...

US truck, bus, military EV producers get active

manufacturing plant will produce 2,500 electric buses a year, and employ around 1,300 workers over the next five years

Scientists strive to replace silicon with graphene on nanocircuity

Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors.

ZigBee wireless temperature sensor energized by a thermo generator

At the recent IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage conference Europe in Munich, an excellent presentation was given by the $20 billion Schneider Electric on a ZigBee Wireless Temperature Sensor Energized by a Thermo Generator.

LG Display number one in the e-reader market by 2012 - and in color

LG Display plan to take the global number 1 position in the e-reader market by 2012 with the introduction of a flexible, color Electronic Paper Display (EPD) stated the Company yesterday.

Jaguar Land Rover expands interest in EVs

Hybrid Jaguars will include the XJ and XF and eventually every model

Powered by a heartbeat

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a method that could lead to medical devices that are powered by a patient's heartbeat.

Department of Energy announces closing of $529 million loan to Fisker

Manufacturing at shuttered Delaware GM plant expected to create over 2,000 jobs

The race for plug and play vibration harvesting

The market for vibration harvesters will increase perhaps one hundred fold when they are broad band so they can be fitted without tuning - or with auto tuning - to the vibration encountered. Ideally they should be made to standard battery sizes and sold as a non polluting, long life battery replacement.

General Motors ventures gets ambitious

General Motors (GM) has established a new subsidiary designed to help the company identify and develop innovative technologies in the automotive and transportation sector, called General Motors Ventures.

Standards will speed energy harvesting adoption

At the recent IDTechEx conference Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe in Munich, Roy Freeland, of the ISA100.18 Power Sources Working Group, spoke on how standards with hasten the adoption of energy harvesting, not least in Wireless Sensor Networks WSN.

Enecsys launches solar PV micro-inverter for Europe and North America

Patented technology improves energy harvest by up to 20% and achieves high-reliability and product life expectancy of at least 25 years.

Le Mans racing car uses OLED rear view mirrors

In this year's 24 hours Le Mans race (June 12-13), the ORECA01 car from French racing team Oreca will be using rear view mirrors with an integrated thin film encapsulated Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) on the back.

Harvesting by a thread

Researchers at Cetemmsa, outside Barcelona, are taking materials science to the textile sector. They've developed conducting threads that heat up or become illuminated in response to a charge; these might be used in sports applications.