Electric vehicles

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 26 January 2017 titled Autonomous Vehicles: Cars but a whole lot more!

Volkswagen is demonstrating with the I.D. BUZZ concept vehicle just how rich in features the electric mobility of tomorrow will be.

Honda unveiled its Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem connecting the power of artificial intelligence, robotics and big data to transform the mobility experience of the future and improve customers' quality of life.

The excitement has been building up in Las Vegas over the past few days with media days and press conferences, expectations have been riding high and the opening day of CES did not disappoint. Dr Harry Zervos reports from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The world's largest energy market looks to move from coal towards cleaner energy in order to battle hazardous smog.

Ford has detailed seven of the 13 new global electrified vehicles it plans to introduce in the next five years, including a plug-in hybrid Transit Custom van in Europe, hybrid versions of the iconic F-150 pickup and Mustang in the US, and a fully electric SUV with an expected range of at least 300 miles for customers globally.

Video Interview with Cambridge Display Technology at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)

Dr Zervos, Principal Analyst with IDTechEx, will be reporting daily from Las Vegas, Nevada this week, where he is attending CES 2017.

This new MIT assessment shows how autonomous cars can be operated in a way that sharply reduces the need for taxis and possibly impacts large buses. If successful, this mode will also provide grounds for private cars whether autonomous or not to be banned from cities. Here comes "silent city"!

Aquarius Engines, an Israeli startup, said a major European carmaker had agreed to fund further development and road tests of its single-piston generator design.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 10 January 2017.

These past 12 months have seen numerous celebrity deaths, athlete drug scandals and the end of Brangelina however, it was also the year Tesla announced fully automated cars, Alexa became part of the family and Leicester City won the Premier League. As we plan ahead for 2017, IDTechEx analysts have taken a look back over the past 12 months and picked out the most impactful technology launches, acquisitions and products from 2016. Happy New Year from all at IDTechEx!

With Singapore's limited airspace and dense population, the need for an aerial traffic management system to allow drones to fly safely has become more urgent.

WiTricity announced it is working with General Motors to test an advanced wireless charging system prototype for electric vehicles.

Video Interview with Cooper Gray Roboticsat the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, USA (November 16-17 2016)

Solar Team Great Britain, which is developing a solar race car and aims to be the first British team to win the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, has completed a data-collection mission to generate real-world-conditions information on the 3,022km race route from Darwin, Australia to Adelaide.

Wattway is a solar panel system installed on the road's surface that captures solar energy to produce renewable energy.

The startup Sono Motors from Munich has collected over 300.000€ through a crowdfunding campaign in the summer of 2016.

A new one hundred percent solar powered car is an official contender for the XPRIZE, built by SOLARCYCLE.

250 new fuel cell cars hit the road in Germany in 2016 and because of technical development and standardisation, drivetrain production cost has come down 75 percent. And because of the international 700 bar standard, components for H2 fuelling stations dropped around 50 percent.