General Electric Company (GE)

What do you need to know about printed, organic, flexible electronics?

What do you need to know about printed, organic and flexible electronics to drive your business in this field?

Driving down fuel usage

Despite their potential to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel consumption, electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base.

Smart Packaging: One-off gimmick or sustained use?

In new research for the report Smart Packaging Comes To Market: Brand Enhancement with Electronics 2014-2024, IDTechEx conducted extensive interviews with end-users in order to understand the challenges and opportunities they see for smart packaging.

Hear what end users want at Printed Electronics Europe

IDTechEx has found that firms are spending from a few hundred thousand to a few million dollars to fund the creation of printed electronics prototypes. Leading end users will present their needs at Printed Electronics Europe 2014 in Berlin early next month.

Metal ink could ease way toward flexible electronic books, displays

Scientists are reporting the development of a novel metal ink made of small sheets of copper that can be used to write a functioning, flexible electric circuit on regular printer paper.

Battery with liquid electrodes can be recharged or refilled

A new kind of battery stores energy in what researchers are calling "rechargeable fuel"—electrodes in liquid form. The result can be either recharged like a conventional battery or replaced by pumping in new fuel like gasoline.

Samsung Electronics

The first successful ultra high transparency barrier material, which was commercialized by Vitex, was originally developed by GE in a process designed to be used for capacitor fabrication. This process is called the Polymer Multi-Layer (PML) process. It was developed in the late 1970's and early 1980's at GE's capacitor division in Hudson Falls, NY for the fabrication of multilayer, polymer/aluminum capacitors. By2011, most of the company's IP had been acquired by Samsung

Can the Internet of Things drive adoption of energy harvesters?

The Internet of Things adds connectivity to things. It is a broad term referring to applications as diverse as internet connected vehicles to consumer electronics such as smart phones. However, the edge of the Internet of Things network will consist of simpler sensors and wireless devices that provide, among other things, the identification of objects, sensing, control and automation.

End-user perspectives on the future of 3D printing

A recent aerospace-led event presented some of the current thinking of European companies on the subject of 3D printing.

Arcam AB

This profile summarizes the position of Swedish Arcam in the 3D printing sector. The current and potential future uses of its 3D printers are detailed.

Water a possible key to energy storage for electric vehicles

scientists from GE and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) may have just the recipe for next-generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries that achieve desired driving range and cost for consumers.

Just add water: possible key to energy storage for electric vehicles

A water-based, flow battery capable of more than just traditional, stationary energy storage.

Supercapacitors gain ascendancy

Life is good for supercapacitors manufacturers and developers.

Tesla may be able to fully charge electric car batteries in 5 minutes

Kompulsa GE reports "JB Straubel , CTO of Tesla Motors has said he thinks Tesla will be able to fully charge electric car batteries in five to ten minutes before too long (without battery swapping).

Ioxus receives $15 million in series C funding

Ioxus, a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for use in transportation, industrial and energy applications, received $15 million in Series C funding from investors.

Ioxus receives $15 Million in series C funding

Ioxus, a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for use in transportation, industrial and energy applications, received $15 million in Series C funding from investors.

EV Roadmap 6 Conference to be held in Portland, OR July 30-31

Come to beautiful Portland, Oregon for EV Roadmap 6: Drivers Take the Spotlight, a conference to be held July 30-31, 2013.

Drayson Racing sets sights on EV land speed record

Drayson announced this week that it plans to make an attempt at an FIA electric land speed record within a month at RAF Elvington in Yorkshire. It will try to best the 175 mph (282 km/h) mark that was set back in 1974.

Highlights at Energy Harvesting & WSN 2013

Over 400 people attended this year's Energy Harvesting and WSN conference in Berlin, Germany, organised by IDTechEx. Attendance represented a spectacular growth of 25% over last year's event.