12 Aug 2015

48V vehicle systems becoming significant
Analysts IDTechEx almost completely rewrote their report Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles 2015-2025 this year and frequent updates take place, such is the pace of change.
3 Aug 2015

Report on EV Roadmap8 Portland Oregon 28-29 July
This event of a few hundred people and twenty or so exhibitors had a good range of coverage from many choices of EV test drive to sitting in on focus groups of people minded to buy an EV.
27 Jul 2015

Electric buses: crucible of change
Buses are now a crucible of change, often adopting new technology before cars.
Event summary
27 Jul 2015

Report on EV Roadmap 8 Portland Oregon 28-29 July Day One
Summary of the first day of the EV Roadmap 8 event taking place in Portland, Oregon
27 Jul 2015

Electric buses: billion dollar orders and crucibles of change
China alone may have 11 million electric buses by 2025 or not long after. The way they are getting costs down - something tracked by IDTechEx - that may be at a much lower price than today but still constitute about $1 trillion or more. Compare that over a decade or more with the IDTechEx projections of all global EV sales, land, water and air, in 2025 of around $500 billion. Buses matter.
21 Jul 2015

Electric vehicle will offer free non-stop road travel
The new IDTechEx Research report, "High Power Energy Harvesting 2015-2025" (www.IDTechEx.com/high) appraises the many new ways in which the vehicle will internally harvest energy that is currently wasted as tyre and brake heat etc. so it needs much less externally supplied energy to get along. That alone will get us to a range of up to 1000 miles. In this article, let us look at how the increasingly infrequent charging can be done automatically without involving the driver and how it can grab externally-supplied electricity created from free ambient energy.
20 Jul 2015

Global electricity storage market for renewables
International and national assessments of the global electricity storage market have been hindered by uncertainty about which technologies and market segments to include. A central question for this roadmap is whether storage is used to support the integration of renewables or for other purposes.
14 Jul 2015

48V Vehicle Systems
48V systems are close to adoption in some new cars across the world partly to cope with the greater amount of electricity being stored and distributed. They are also becoming attractive for some of the more basic electric vehicles.
13 Jul 2015

Winners in electric vehicle batteries
IDTechEx is the only market analyst tracking the development of 45 electric vehicle categories and not just electric cars.
2 Jul 2015

National electric vehicle strategies strongly diverge
The industrial and commercial electric vehicle business will be 42% of the EV market in 2025 on IDTechEx analysis with well over 50% of the profits because so much of it is specialist and niche and the vehicles are not bought on up-front price.
26 Jun 2015

BioSolar files patent for super battery technology
BioSolar, Inc has announced that it has jointly filed a patent application with the University of California, Santa Barbara.
9 Jun 2015

Growth in High-powered Energy Harvesting
The new reality is that energy harvesting - creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed, using ambient energy - is now one subject from microwatts for wireless sensors to tens of kilowatts for vehicles and buildings. This is because it increasingly involves the same technologies, locations and companies. One structure, such as a remote building, will tend to use a range of energy harvesting from very low power EH for wireless sensors to very high power EH for charging those newly announced Tesla house batteries.
10 May 2015

IDTechEx: Invest Now in Fuel Cell Vehicles?
There is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles. Nonetheless some manufacturers are very enthusiastic and now could be the beginning of the end of the trough of disillusionment, indeed the time to invest.
8 May 2015

Tesla opens duck hunting season with their new house battery system
What ducks and batteries have in common? The answer is Tesla's new home energy storage system. I will explain why.
28 Apr 2015

Ultrasound test echoes with battery charge
Researchers have shown that ultrasound echoes can indicate density changes to provide a simple and non-invasive method for measuring charge within any battery.
24 Apr 2015

IDTechEx: Invest now in fuel cell vehicles?
There is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles.
16 Apr 2015

World's first one megawatt electric race car
Drive eO announces the arrival of eO PP03, world's first one megawatt all-electric race car.
External press release
9 Apr 2015

BMW i8 wins 2015 world green car award
The BMW i8 was declared the 2015 World Green Car at a press conference hosted by the New York International Auto Show, Bridgestone Corporation, and Autoneum.
6 Apr 2015

Internet of things should be developable for all
During the last three years, Aalborg University has been involved in a major European project to ensure that the things on the Internet of Things speak the same language - and that the language can be used by all.
6 Feb 2015

Fuel cell vehicles feel the pressure
It is not much of an achievement to make a fuel cell powered vehicle any more. They have been made for over 25 years and they work well.