Electric vehicles

Audi and Alta Devices, a subsidiary of solar-cell specialist, Hanergy Thin Film Power, plan to work together to integrate solar cells into panoramic glass roofs of Audi models.

Evovelo has just announced its prototype electric trike, which can reach speeds of 45 kph with a drivers' cab and solar panel on the roof.

LG Electronics Inc has announced plans to establish a factory for advanced electric vehicle components in the United States.

An electric car for Africa, custom-designed for the needs of the population there, that strengthens rural structures and helps drive the economy.

Electric vehicles are the future and ones that make their own electricity are the end game for these.

Magnesium — the lightest of all structural metals — has a lot going for it in the quest to make ever lighter cars and trucks that go farther on a tank of fuel or battery charge.

Through a series of projects to be rolled out in coming months, two organisations will develop data-driven solutions for more efficient and sustainable farming.

Modular and customizable, electric vehicles from French manufacturer XYT are assembled locally and by certified professionals, while remaining very competitive: each vehicle is made up of 580 pieces as opposed to 6000 to 10 000 for a classic car.

Researchers have developed a new type of rubber that is as tough as natural rubber but can also self-heal.

Materials scientists have created a light foam from two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal-boron nitride that absorbs carbon dioxide.

All the publicity currently goes to the race to make regular and premium cars have longer range

Siemens has been commissioned by the German state of Hesse to build an overhead contact line for electrified freight transport on a ten-kilometer stretch of autobahn.

There is more energy to harvest at sea. True, water craft have stronger resistance to overcome but on balance, it means that energy independent electric boats are more common than their equivalents on land or in the air and they have lessons for both.

Chanje, a California based commercial electric vehicle and energy solutions company, is poised to enter the medium-duty vehicle segment, providing commercial all electric vehicle transportation options.

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Companies get vaporised when market segmentation widens. Classics are those making steam trains missing the move to electric and to other modes of travel and NortonVilliersTriumph thinking that dominance of the UK motorcycle market protected them when, of course, motorcycles are a world market appropriately addressed by others

This article charts the development of water vehicles towards energy independence.

Tesla is riding high and Elon Musk has proved right in almost all respects, with his company valued up with the top three auto companies despite Tesla's output being a tiny percentage of theirs. One of the reasons is his record orderbook for pure electric vehicles recognised to be the future.

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With the completion of the tender offer of Mobileye, Intel is poised to accelerate its autonomous driving business from car-to-cloud.