External press release
4 Apr 2018

ENGIE and Fenix complete acquisition for affordable power to Africa
Global utility company ENGIE and off-grid energy leader Fenix International have closed their acquisition agreement. Fenix is the first Solar Home System company to join a major worldwide energy company and has already delivered clean, safe and affordable energy and financial services to over one million people.
29 Mar 2018

Charging conundrum discussed at IDTechEx's EV event in Berlin
The electric vehicle charging infrastructure conundrum will be discussed at Electric Vehicles Everything is Changing, part of the IDTechEx Show!, in Berlin on 11-12 April.
15 Mar 2018

All power to the proton: battery breakthrough
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable "proton battery" that could re-wire how we power our homes, vehicles and devices.
9 Mar 2018

Off Grid Electricity Continually Reinvented
Off grid electricity production can be broadly scaled in size into four categories as shown in this article.
8 Mar 2018

India - off grid economics debate
India is one of those countries where grid electricity is often more expensive to produce than off grid excluding energy storage but grid electricity is much cheaper to the customer due to massive subsidies not available for minigrids.
Full profile interview
6 Mar 2018

BMW
BMW is extremely active when it comes to battery innovation. The company has performed a screening of battery materials to achieve high performance, and is also working on second-life applications.
Event summary
5 Mar 2018

Future Powertrain Conference report UK, 28th Feb- 1st Mar 2018
This event continues to grow with 400 registering at the entrance and 48 table top exhibitors including a busy IDTechEx stan
1 Mar 2018

Microgrids but not as we know them
The "IDTechEx Show!" Berlin, April 11-12 will have 2500+ paying delegates, 220 exhibitors and nine parallel conferences but there is a difference this year.
27 Feb 2018

UPS To deploy first electric truck
UPS announced it plans to deploy 50 plug-in electric delivery trucks that will be comparable in acquisition cost to conventional-fueled trucks without any subsidies - an industry first that is breaking a key barrier to large scale fleet adoption, as reported in Electric Vehicles Research.
2 Feb 2018

Hydrogen Not Batteries for Grid Balancing?
A large amount of renewable energy production is turned off when it is being produced at a time of day or the season when it is not needed. Lithium-ion batteries have recently become popular not just for compensating at the house level but even at the power station grid level.
29 Jan 2018

Tesla on autopilot crashes into a fire engine
A Tesla Model S traveling at 65 mph crashed into a stationary fire truck, the electric car was on Autopilot when the collision happened.
5 Jan 2018

Webinar Thursday 18 January - Electric vehicle charging goes off grid
IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday 18 January titled Electric vehicle charging goes off grid.
13 Dec 2017

What the European Commission is doing to foster battery innovation
As proof of IDTechEx's long-standing collaboration with the EU Commission, technology analyst Lorenzo Grande was invited to deliver a talk on the state of the art of battery manufacturing and how Europe can catch up with its Asian and North American competitors. A selection of the slides presented during the meeting have been included at the end of this premium article.
12 Dec 2017

Off Grid Zero Emission: Better Than Grid Extension and Gensets Now
The improving business cases for off grid are a contrast to much grid supply, where high voltage grid extension at a swingeing $1-6 million per mile is not involved, nor even low voltage extension at $15k-50k. It attracts where grids are being neglected or are based on bad choices increasing prices.
8 Dec 2017

Less Grid, Less Battery, More Happiness
This article looks at the options for progressing towards complete elimination of energy storage of any kind in off grid electricity generation.
4 Dec 2017

Good and Bad EV and Off Grid Forecasting
Analysts IDTechEx find that there are several indicators of dramatic change in the land, water and air vehicles increasingly made and operated by the same companies. The Chinese are clearer about this than most. This article explains this stance.
1 Dec 2017

5,000 StreetScooters in service at DHL , Tesla trucks on order
Deutsche Post DHL Group plans on being the industry's driver of electromobility and market leader in green logistics. Its e-mobility initiative is also part of its ambitious GoGreen program, an environmental protection project that will help Deutsche Post DHL Group become the first logistics company to reduce all logistics-related emissions to net zero by 2050.
24 Nov 2017

Huge New Market as Cities, Buildings Go Electricity Independent
Avoid the grid! Although the national grid is the preferred source of electricity in most countries and the aspiration in others there are now powerful forces pushing the other way.
Full profile interview: Partners
22 Nov 2017

Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratories, Inc.
Battery supplier
22 Nov 2017

Battery-switching device promises more road time
Nissan Leafs, which go about 107 miles on a charge, sometimes end up relegated to commuter cars due to battery-life worries. The mass-market, standard Tesla Model 3 can go double that, but even that distance can be disconcerting on long road trips.