Electric vehicles

Power Electronics for Heavy Duty Vehicles

Novomorphic is a newly-founded start-up, based in Wales and spun out of CSA Catapult. It is a design house with both chip and system design capabilities.

AcBel Polytech Inc (AcBel) is a Taiwanese power electronics company developing power supplies for high-performance data centers.

Across the global autonomous vehicle landscape, commercial trucks are emerging as one of the first segments to reach true-scale deployment. in China, the pace of adoption has accelerated dramatically: trucks equipped with assisted driving systems now collectively log over one million kilometers every day. To gain deeper insights into this rapid transformation, Shihao Fu, an analyst specializing in autonomous driving at IDTechEx, recently visited Inceptio Technology, a leading Chinese autonomous trucking company.

In electric vehicle (EV) batteries, coatings play a critical role in enhancing performance, safety and longevity. This article highlights the latest technologies, developments, applications and outlook for advanced coatings in EV battery applications. Fire protection, dielectric insulation, corrosion protection and thermally conductive coatings are all covered.

Bosch has been producing semiconductor devices since the 1950s. This profile focuses on the company's SiC portfolio, which Bosch have been developing since 2021.

The market for remote battery monitoring is expected to continue to grow over the next decade, fueled by demand from mobility and energy storage system managers. This trend is tied to increasing interest in wireless battery management systems (wBMSs) to save on wiring costs and reduce battery pack complexity, though the majority of the market will continue to be made up of wired BMSs using gateways to convert to wireless communications protocols.

Neolix (新石器慧通（北京）科技有限公司) was founded in Beijing in 2018 by Enyuan Yu and focuses on the development and manufacturing of L4 autonomous vehicles.

Motional, originally nuTonomy, is a company developing autonomous vehicle technology. It was originally a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv.

(Ultra)wide Bandgap Semiconductors: Materials and Manufacture

OSE Group is an industrial automation group producing scalable manufacturing lines in multiple sectors, including automotive. This profile will focus on the development of its magnetic gearbox concept for electric vehicles.

IDTechEx analyzes the business of SICOXS, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining, that produces thermally bonded polycrystalline SiC wafers that reduce cost significantly for SiC power electronics.

Addressing Critical Rare Earth Magnet Supply and Demand Challenges with Material Design and Manufacturing Innovations

Within the growing market for motors for EVs, there are trends around motor technology and topology, power and torque density, materials utilization, and thermal management. The new IDTechEx report "Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles 2026-2036: Technologies, Materials, Markets, and Forecasts" addresses these trends within the markets for battery-electric or hybrid cars, vans, trucks, buses, two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars, with OEM use-cases, benchmarking, and granular market forecasts.

The solid-state battery (SSB) industry is transforming, driven by advanced technologies and rising demand across applications. Offering breakthroughs in safety and energy density, SSBs could reach a $10 billion market by 2036. The IDTechEx report "Solid-State Batteries 2026-2036: Technology, Forecasts, Players" provides a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic industry, exploring the interplay between cutting-edge technologies, market trends, manufacturing challenges, and the global ecosystem surrounding solid-state batteries.

2025 has been a turning point for the power electronics industry. Despite a slowdown in EV (electric vehicle) sales, IDTechEx forecasts a tripling in the market size of the power electronics for electric vehicles market, to US$42 billion by 2036. In IDTechEx's new report, "Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles 2026-2036: Technologies, Markets, and Forecasts", these trends are analyzed and used to forecast unit sales, market size, and US$ per kW.

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