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Electric Vehicles About to Leap in Range Again

This article covers different electric vehicles under development.

Mobile electrics at watts to kilowatts without batteries

Battery elimination, indeed elimination of all energy storage, is moving to even higher power, from electronics to electrical engineering

Robotic system monitors specific neurons

Recording electrical signals from inside a neuron in the living brain can reveal a great deal of information about that neuron's function and how it coordinates with other cells in the brain.

Spray-on electric rainbows: making safer electrochromic inks

Anyone who has a rear-view mirror that automatically dims blue in reaction to annoying high-beam headlights glaring from behind has seen an electrochromic film in action. Now, chemists have developed a new method to more safely and, by extension, easily produce these shear films, which change their color with the help of a tiny electric current. This could make them available to many industries that have not been able to feasibly use them before.

The 3D printing metals market will be worth $12B in 2028

Following commercialisation in the 1990s, today metal 3D printing has established itself as an attractive manufacturing solution for prototyping and beyond.

Locus Robotics Corporation

Lotus Robotics is a warehouse mobile robotics company established in 2014. it currently has 36 employees and $8m in investment.

AR Wars, episode II: The return of Glass

The announcement of the relaunch Glass EE brings Google back in the game it kick started -for all intents and purposes- back in 2013, and this time the AR headset finds itself in a battle of the (enterprise) niches.

Bouncing gel balls for energy and robotics

Water droplets float in a hot pan because of the so-called Leidenfrost effect. Physicists have discovered a variation: the so-called Elastic Leidenfrost effect.

The fibre composite market: A land of opportunities

It is easy to look at an industry like composites and quickly dismiss it as slow-moving and of no real interest to you or your company, but the chances are you would be wrong.

3 billion dollars in rebates to support electric vehicle adoption

1.5 million electric vehicles will be on California roads by 2025, and 5 million by 2030, with the help of a new rebate program created by legislation announced by Assemblymember Phil Ting.

Teaching robots to feel with their eyes

One of the immediate goals of the project is to be able to take an image of a surface that hasn't necessarily been seen before and pick out properties like how soft it will feel or how slippery it's going to be.

Air pollution casts shadow over solar energy production

Global solar energy production is taking a major hit due to air pollution and dust.

New screen coating makes reading in sunlight a lot easier

Screens on even the newest phones and tablets can be hard to read outside in bright sunlight. Inspired by the nanostructures found on moth eyes, researchers have developed a new antireflection film that could keep people from having to run to the shade to look at their mobile devices.

New 3D display takes the eye fatigue out of virtual reality

Although AR and VR devices are starting to hit the market, they remain mostly a novelty because eye fatigue makes them uncomfortable to use for extended periods.

Printed sensors monitor tire wear in real time

Electrical engineers have invented an inexpensive printed sensor that can monitor the tread of car tires in real time, warning drivers when the rubber meeting the road has grown dangerously thin.

Webinar Tuesday 27 June - Future Powertrain: EV Options and Objectives

IDTechEx are holding a free webinar on Tuesday 27 June titled Future Powertrain: EV Options and Objectives.

Powercast wireless power development kit charges devices up to 80 feet

Powercast Corporation, a leader in long-range wireless power for 14 years, has announced the P1110-EVAL-01 development kit that enables manufacturers of smart, connected devices to easily design and deploy them using Powercast's wireless power technology.

From drinking straws to robots

Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders researchers have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of standing and walking.

Nano fiber feels forces and hears sounds made by cells

Engineers have developed a miniature device that's sensitive enough to feel the forces generated by swimming bacteria and hear the beating of heart muscle cells.

Runaway Adoption of Pure Electric Vehicles: Multiple Triggers

It has long been speculated that electric vehicle adoption may have a sudden tipping point of adoption. IDTechEx pointed out that incentives help as does reaching lower cost of ownership but lower up-front price is the killer blow.