4 May 2016

Rapid progress in electric aircraft
Aurora Flight Sciences will be presenting alongside NASA and many other advanced aerospace developers at the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) event.
Full profile interview
4 May 2016

Plan B Energy Storage
IDTechEx interviewed Grant Brown, VP Marketing at Plan B Energy Storage (PBES) about their engagement in the battery industry for use in industrial, commercial and large scale marine vessels applications. Plan B Energy Storage, founded in 2015, provides hardware, engineering and strategic design services to the industrial energy storage industry specifically for marine and grid energy storage applications.
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29 Apr 2016

Rice husks into lithium-ion anodes for plug-in electric vehicles
Rice is one of the top three staple foods in the world. But in the future, it may be a key part of the battery in your plug-in electric vehicle.
29 Apr 2016

Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery
An unexpected discovery has led to a rechargeable battery that's as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy density.
29 Apr 2016

Webinar Thursday 12 May - Batteries for Electric Buses
IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 12 May 2016 - Batteries for Electric Buses: Technologies and Marke.t
28 Apr 2016

Making electronics out of coal
Coal could become the basis for solar panels, batteries, or electronic devices.
27 Apr 2016

Battery technology with off-the-charts charging capacity
Researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would never require replacement.
27 Apr 2016

Rate of improvement of Lithium-ion batteries for EVs
The future of the electric vehicle industry land, water and air largely hangs on the improvement of lithium-ion batteries over the coming decade when no alternatives will be ready for market dominance.
27 Apr 2016

Future powertrains for electric vehicles: huge opportunities
The new IDTechEx report, Future Powertrains 2016-2031 concerns the twenty year future of powertrains for land vehicles, including reference to water and airborne vehicles as appropriate. The primary emphasis is on the most important applications by market value - cars and buses - and the most important powertrain types by value potential but most of this analysis is directly applicable to most other vehicles.