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Since the first consumer-level 3D printers came on the scene six years ago their sales have grown substantially

Electric vehicle events concentrate too much on three Cs - commercials, cars, copying each other. Cars will be only 34% of the electric vehicle value market in 2025. We must understand the totally different future, including for cars.

According to the IDTechEx report Range Extenders for Electric Vehicles Land, Water & Air 2015-2025 over eight million hybrid cars will be made in 2025, with a range extender, the additional power source that distinguishes them from pure-electric.

To benchmark new technology for electric vehicles it is vital to look at all of the off-road, on-road, water and airborne e-vehicles.

Most drones are and will remain electric as detailed in the new IDTechEx report, "Electric Drones: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 2015-2025."

Europe's biggest wearable technology event exploring the upcoming technologies and their market drivers.

At the start, there was no generic name. The simple glass of the car windshield started to incorporate printed antennas and heaters. It was what we now know as "structural electronics" - one structure performing mechanical, electrical and other functions.

It started with the bicycle dynamo and now no self-respecting vehicle designer ignores the possibility of many forms of energy harvesting in his design of a land vehicle.

At the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event, some of the key end-users presenting include United Technologies Research, Jaguar Land Rover, JC Decaux, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Crown Packaging and many more.

From Hamburg to Paris, city authorities are forcing bus operators to go pollution-free at point of use by a set date and that will almost always mean pure-electric battery buses.

Launches of fuel cell cars are reportedly planned by up to six carmakers from 2015 including Tata Motors of India, owners of Jaguar Land Rover.

The most popular word for them is now drones, giving a military connotation to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs.

PV industry shipments grew by 15% in 2014 over 2013 to 39.3-GWp from 34.0-GWp the previous year, according to the SPV Market Research/IDTechEx annual supply report "Photovoltaic Manufacturer Shipments: Capacity, Production, Prices and Revenues to 2019" .

The printed electronics industry shows a huge interest in sensors as it seeks to forget the failures from the past.

Many people tell us that the Internet of Things (IoT) is much more than the narrow definition of systems based on IP addressed microcontrollers with sensors.

It is not much of an achievement to make a fuel cell powered vehicle any more. They have been made for over 25 years and they work well.

The 3D printing industry is enormously diverse with printers ranging from the smallest $350 home 3D printers to the largest $1.5m industrial machines.

Pure electric vehicles are inevitably small and feeble or premium-priced, niche products like the Teslas? Not true.

Combining decades of research to provide valuable insight as PV market re-emerges

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 12 February 2015.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 3 February 2015 discussing the conductive inks and pastes markets.

The metal oxide backplane technology has many clear advantages.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Monday 26 January 2015 discussing the progress surrounding supercapacitor penetration.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 22 January 2015 discussing the 3D printing landscape.

Printed electronics products need to be value aligned rather than cost aligned. Find new opportunities from a commercial perspective and do business rather than meet old friends at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event in Berlin on 28-29 April. Register by Jan 23rd to save 40%.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Friday 16 January 2015 discussing recent updates in equipment for printed, organic and flexible electronics.

A revolution is slicing through the car industry.

In 2025 over $25 billion will be spent on formulations and intermediate materials for wearable technology, as forecast by analysts IDTechEx in the brand new report Wearable Technology Materials 2015-2025.

Thermoelectric harvesting will be on production hybrid electric on-road vehicles from 2018. It will be commonplace on hybrids in 2020 and almost entirely to charge the battery, or increasingly supercapacitor or supercabattery used for power.

Simple things are being applied to reduce purchase price, increase resale price and extend range of electric cars

3D printing has come of age; the total market surpassed $1bn in revenues during 2012 and growth is expected to continue throughout all target sectors to reach $20bn by 2025.

The progress of virtual reality headsets.

IDTechEx report from the Protein event.

Load bearing structures that are also electronic or electrical are called structural electronics. This two-for-the-price-of-one approach can be more reliable, attractive and long-lived and it always saves space.

Structural electronics is one of the most important developments this century yet most people have never heard of it.

2014 has been an eventful year for the graphene industry.