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ZEM SAS

ZEM is a company working on large battery packs for electric boats and ferries. Dr Lorenzo Grande interviewed Salman Farmanfarmaian for an update of their recent activity.

Interview with VerdanTech at the IDTechEx Show! USA 2016

Video Interview with VerdanTech at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)

Ground-breaking developmental thermosetting resin technology

Video Interview with Panasonic at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)

The death of conventional buses

The recent developments of the bus industry have led to impressive advancements: batteries with two different chemistries have been demonstrated to be capable of retaining 90% of the capacity after 10,000 deep cycles in ultra fast charge up to 400kW.

Electric boats and ships 2017-2027: Large market emerging

Analysts at IDTechEx have issued a new report, Electric Boats and Ships 2017-2027 looking at this fragmented but often highly profitable and growing sector.

Webinar Thursday 26 January - Autonomous vehicles

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 26 January 2017 titled Autonomous Vehicles: Cars but a whole lot more!

Updates from CES 2017

A team of IDTechEx analysts attended CES 2017 in the first week of January. Our aim was to cover all of the latest updates and trends in each of the topics that we cover. In this exclusive premium article, we report our observations in the VR, AR/MR, smartwatch & fitness tracker, sensors, air quality monitoring, displays and haptics spaces.

Emperra Diabetes Care

Emperra manufacture connected insulin pens and blood glucose monitors for use by diabetic patients. Dr David Pugh spoke with Christian Krey, CEO of Emperra about their new product lines launching this month.

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd

Sumitomo is a large Japanese conglomerate which is now marketing its own vanadium redox flow battery for industrial and renewable energy applications.

Will Amazon Go win the war between computer vision and RFID in retail?

The scenario that shopping without checkout lines has been described multiple times since the introduction of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and many people believed if that could come true, it must be RFID that enables it. However, Amazon Go will demonstrate to us that other emerging technologies are going to realize it first, due to the significant improvement of deep learning, computer vision and sensor fusion, as announced on 5th December 2016. This leads us to consider which technology will be the future in the retail industry: computer vision, or RFID?

CES 2017- Day 2, January 6th, 2017

Day 2 of CES was dedicated to start ups and new companies doing interesting things.

New directions for the aerogel market

Alternatives to silica aerogel panel and blanket composites are beginning to gain traction. Silica aerogel granule and powder products are becoming more pronounced as progressively more companies emerge. Meanwhile polymer aerogels are a different class of the material, which can have the potential to act as interesting alternatives to traditional plastic and composite products.

Webinar Tuesday 17 January - Environmental gas sensors

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 17 January 2017. Webinar Title: Environmental Gas Sensors: Technologies, Applications & Opportunities

Announcements to get the year started - CES Media Day, Jan 4th, 2017

Dr Zervos, Principal Analyst with IDTechEx, will be reporting daily from Las Vegas, Nevada this week, where he is attending CES 2017.

Autonomous car/ taxi/ microbus reduces traffic 75 percent

This new MIT assessment shows how autonomous cars can be operated in a way that sharply reduces the need for taxis and possibly impacts large buses. If successful, this mode will also provide grounds for private cars whether autonomous or not to be banned from cities. Here comes "silent city"!

Aquarius Engines and range extender futures

Aquarius Engines, an Israeli startup, said a major European carmaker had agreed to fund further development and road tests of its single-piston generator design.

Webinar Tuesday 10 January - New EV Key Technology: Energy Harvesting

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 10 January 2017.

IDTechEx review of the year: the most impactful tech stories of 2016

These past 12 months have seen numerous celebrity deaths, athlete drug scandals and the end of Brangelina however, it was also the year Tesla announced fully automated cars, Alexa became part of the family and Leicester City won the Premier League. As we plan ahead for 2017, IDTechEx analysts have taken a look back over the past 12 months and picked out the most impactful technology launches, acquisitions and products from 2016. Happy New Year from all at IDTechEx!

Business Center for European Companies Opens in Korea

The Gyeonggi-do Europe Business Center has been established in Korea to help European companies enter the Korean market.

Attitude to fuel cell vehicles is increasingly polarised

250 new fuel cell cars hit the road in Germany in 2016 and because of technical development and standardisation, drivetrain production cost has come down 75 percent. And because of the international 700 bar standard, components for H2 fuelling stations dropped around 50 percent.