Electric vehicles

The North American Daimler subsidiary Thomas Built Buses introduced its first all-electric school bus for series production.

GKN Powder Metallurgy are the world's largest in this field and have recently expanded their efforts into Metal Matrix Composites (MMC).

Siemens and the "South Coast Air Quality Management District " are running a one-mile, zero-emission eHighway demonstration in the Californian city of Carson.

Over the course of a year, the self-driving shuttle aims to provide a quarter-million residents and visitors of Las Vegas with first-hand experience using autonomous vehicle technology, exposing most riders to the technology for the first time.

Automobili Lamborghini in collaboration with two laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology marks the first steps of a possible future Lamborghini electric super sports car.

UITP-Busworld 2017 took place at Kortrijk Expo from the 23rd to the 25th October 2017. Running for over 40 years it is the worlds oldest and largest bus and coach exhibition. This year UITP and Busworld announced the first collaboration of their international bus conference in parallel to the Busworld exhibition. Analyst Aman Atak was there to learn about new developments and products, as well as attending the conference, in parallel, on the outlook of electric buses in China.

Scientists are working to develop new fleets of autonomous 'self-optimising' forklift trucks which can operate safely and efficiently in warehouses alongside human co-workers, and automatically adapt to changing work demands.

ClearMotion, Inc. is a privately funded company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, US. It has developed ClearMotion, a proactive ride control system for the purposes of passenger and driver comfort in an autonomous driving mode.

Launching approximately 400 HPC stations by 2020, IONITY will make long-distance journeys easier and marks an important step for electric vehicles.

NVIDIA announced that Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world's largest mail and logistics company, and ZF, one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, have partnered together to deploy a test fleet of autonomous delivery trucks, starting in 2018.

Over 3,000 attendees, 250 exhibitors and 240 speakers will converge at the Santa Clara Convention Center on November 15-16 for the IDTechEx Show!

Researchers established a new world efficiency record for quantum dot solar cells, at 13.4 percent.

The Pilbara in Western Australia will soon have the biggest lithium mining operations in the world.