Daimler AG

Daimler Truck to Prepare Series Production of Fuel Cells

Investments are being made in new state-of-the-art facilities covering every single process stage of fuel cell production: from membrane coating and stack manufacturing to the production of fuel cell units.

Xpeng Motors

Xpeng Motors is a Chinese start-up designing and manufacturing electric cars that are intelligent and connected.

BMW

BMW has demonstrated success with its first electric car, the i3 with strong sales since 2013. BMW have announced plans for 25 electrified models by 2023, showing a strong push towards electrification.

Mercedes-AMG Electric Exhaust Gas Turbocharger

Mercedes-AMG is pressing ahead with electrification through innovative developments and as part of this is also benefiting from motorsport know-how. The latest achievement which is already in the final stages of development is the electric exhaust gas turbocharger, which in future will be used for the first time in a series production model from Affalterbach.

e-troFit: Converting Public Transport to Electricity

e-troFit provide a kit for converting commercial vehicles to electric drivetrains. With emissions targets on the increase, this technology represents a possible solution.

Farasis

Farasis is a privately held Li-ion battery manufacturer.

Rolls-Royce, Daimler Truck Plan Stationary Fuel Cell Sytems

Daimler Truck AG and Rolls-Royce plc plan to cooperate on stationary fuel-cell generators as CO2-neutral emergency power generators for safety-critical facilities such as data centers.

Toyota (2020)

Senior Technology Analyst Luke Gear provides an overview of the latest electric vehicle developments from Toyota. Where is the company headed?

Addionics

IDtechEx spoke with battery technology start-up company Addionics.

Volvo and Daimler Planning Joint Venture

Sharing the Green Deal vision of sustainable transport and a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, two leading companies in the commercial vehicle industry, Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group, have signed a preliminary non-binding agreement to establish a new joint venture.

Kangde Group

The Kangde Group are relatively new entrants to the carbon fiber market but aim to quickly become the dominant force. There are multiple parts of this group as shown in the below relationship.

20-year Lithium-Ion Energy Storage System

The proprietary products can perform a wide variety of in front of the meter, behind the meter, and microgrid applications and are designed to be flexible so that as priorities shift, the battery applications can be adapted to meet the needs of future use cases.

Autonomous Trucks: Addressing the Industry's Structural Challenges

What is the technology and commercial status of Autonomous mobility, and what does the future market deployment look like?

Mobile Robots: Coronavirus Pushes Logistic Automation up the Agenda

Recent developments bring into focus the motivation, and at times the imperative, to increase automation in the logistics and delivery chain. IDTechEx have been examining the technological and commercial trends in this field for several years.

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) - Hype or Hope?

In the past decade, mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) has attracted significant attention as it holds the potential to disrupt the business model of the traditional automotive industry and the way people travel.

Electric Medium and Heavy-Duty Trucks; Evolution and Revolution

Along with the rest of the automotive sector, the medium and heavy-duty truck market is evolving. Governments around the world, recognising the potentially catastrophic repercussions of unfettered climate change and witnessing the detrimental impact on human health from vehicle exhaust pollutant emissions in urban environments, are taking decisive action, that will, in the coming decades, drive vehicle manufacturers to zero on-road exhaust emission powertrain solutions. Consequently, the days of the fossil fuel powered combustion engine are numbered.

Energy Absolute Pcl

Energy Absolute Pcl is an alternative energy company based out of Thailand. It makes and supplies biodiesel and has announced plans for an electric car as well as electric catamarans for its home market.

StoreDot Appoints Tzemah Kislev as VP Engineering

StoreDot has appointed Tzemah Kislev to the newly created role of Vice President of Engineering.

Volocopter, Grab Conduct Air Taxi Feasibility Study in Southeast Asia

Volocopter and Grab announced that they will conduct a joint feasibility study on urban air mobility as part of a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the prospect of urban air mobility solutions in the region's megacities.

Daimler Trucks, Torc Robotics Expand Automated Truck Road Testing

Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics, partners in Daimler Trucks' Autonomous Technology Group, will soon expand testing of automated truck technology to new public routes in the US. These public road testing efforts allow the teams to collect data from real-world traffic scenarios beyond what can be learned from computer simulations and closed road courses.