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Electric Vehicle Motors Rise to Two per Vehicle - Creates $144 Billion

The motor market is doubling in value even over the underlying fast growth of the electric vehicle business, whether hybrid or pure electric.

Electric Vehicles and Structural Electronics- Insights and Top Trends

Recently, the good news has been the continued strong growth of the market for hybrid cars, buses and outdoor forklifts, premium-priced pure electric cars and pure electric vehicles of many other types from the newly popular electric motorcycles to mobile cranes, mobility vehicles for the disabled and microEVs. On the negative side, the oversupplied e-bike/ e-scooter business remained almost entirely loss-making Chinese suppliers of the Chinese market where growth eased and companies left the business. Mainstream pure electric cars remained a failure due to up-front price too high, resale price too low (those short-lived batteries) and range too short. The term "structural electronics" is little known despite being used for several years, notably in terms of specifics such as "structural sensors" and "structural batteries". Google has tens of millions of items on the subject and, more importantly, in 2014, it started to be realised that this is to be something big.

Battery swap pilot program

At an event in Los Angeles last year, Tesla showcased battery swap technology to demonstrate that it's possible to replace a Model S battery in less time than it takes to fill a gas tank.

IDTechEx explains technology roadmap for electric vehicles

Simple things are being applied to reduce purchase price, increase resale price and extend range of electric cars

Indian supercapacitor sports car

A local Indian company has built an electric sports car, Super Nova Electric Vehicle, that can cover 1,000 kilometres with a single charge of its batteries and at the speed of some 150 kms per hour.

IDTechEx: structural electronics - never heard of it!

Structural electronics is one of the most important developments this century yet most people have never heard of it.

EEVC Belgium: Lessons from the first day

This two yearly event again had about 400 delegates. Once again it provided a forum for the huge number of European and global EV related organisations with overlapping agendas. Of the hundreds of millions of dollars they spend each year, too much goes on soft topics such as consumer attitudes to car models that will not be with us for long or how cars may form a meaningful part of a smart grid over ten years from now.

SolidEnergy battery has twice the energy density of Tesla batteries

MIT startup, SolidEnergy has achieved 1337 Wh/L in energy density twice that of Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and Tesla batteries which the company claim will disrupt more than 20 years of domination of the consumer electronics and electric vehicle industries by traditional Li-ion batteries.

Electric car value chain upended on way to $188 billion

The market for hybrid and pure electric cars homologated as such is set to be $188 billion in 2025 according to IDTechEx analysis.

IDTechEx: the surreal world of $500 billion electric motors for EVs

Analysts IDTechEx finds over $500 billion will be spent on electric traction motors for electric vehicles between 2014 and 2025.

IDTechEx: Electric Vehicles - A $533 billion credible prospect

Electric Vehicles on a roll, with the global market forecast for all hybrid and pure electric vehicles expected to exceed $533 billion in 2025.

Tesla CEO Musk sees fully autonomous car ready in five or six years

Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said the technology to make a fully autonomous car will be ready in five or six years, and the result will be a vehicle far less likely to harm occupants and others on the road.

Nevada State policies needed to promote electric vehicles

Several proposed new state policies would open up the Nevada market for electric vehicles, according to a new report issued by the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project.

Nevada selected as official site for Tesla battery gigafactory

Nevada has been selected as the official site for the Tesla Gigafactory.

What's in store? The future of batteries to be revealed

A current major topic of conversation within the advanced battery and electric vehicle industry is the future of battery technology and chemistries in the context of energy density, safety and cost.

IDTechEx reveals multi-billion dollar market for electric motorcycles

Savvy participants in the electric vehicles business see beyond the obvious e-bikes, e-cars and e-buses where little money is made. The other half of the value market is where most of the profits will be made and it is replete with new sub-markets coming from nowhere.

To bolster lithium battery life, add a little salt

Engineers have achieved a breakthrough in the race for safer, longer-lasting batteries to power the world's automobiles, cell phones, computers and autonomous robots.

Raymor Industries, Inc.

Raymor Nanotech is a division of the Raymor Industries, a Canadian private company located near the Montreal area. It initially started supplying spherical titanium powdres synthesized using a plasma atomisaiton method. In 2010 it started work on single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and the titanium activity has since been acquired (dec 2013) by Arcam for a reported fee of $35 million. Raymor has also acquired NanoIntegris (operating as a subsidiary) which brings value in the post processing steps of CNT production, i.e., purifying and separating metallic and semiconducting ones.

Panasonic and Tesla sign agreement for the Gigafactory

Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors, Inc. have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the Gigafactory.

Pure lithium anode closer to reality

Researchers report that they have taken a big step toward accomplishing what battery designers have been trying to do for decades - design a pure lithium anode.