25 Nov 2011

Enfucell wins new EU funding
The FLEXIBILITY consortium, consisting of Enfucell, Siemens, VTT, Varta Microbattery and seven other leading European technology companies and universities, has been granted a 4,9 million euro project funding by the EU commission of which Enfucell's share is 258.000 euros. The project is coordinated by the Dresden University of Technology and has a life span of four years.
External press release
2 Nov 2011

EnOceanparts.com site launched for self-powered wireless products
Alpscontrols.com has announced the launch of a new website - enoceanparts.com - where EnOcean-enabled self-powered wireless technology products will be available for purchase all on one convenient site at extremely competitive prices.
26 Oct 2011

Latest EV trends and dead ends
Europe's largest electric vehicle show eCarTec, that has just taken place in Munich Germany, was an excellent place to see the latest trends and dead ends in electric vehicles.
External press release
29 Sep 2011

EnOcean Alliance members to showcase wireless energy harvesting
The EnOcean Alliance, together with supporting partners BSC Software, Dimonoff, Echoflex, ILLUMRA, Kieback & Peter, Leviton, Magnum Energy Solutions, Verve Lighting Systems, and SCL Elements will exhibit and demonstrate their cutting-edge portfolio of wireless energy harvesting products.
30 Aug 2011

Siemens receives major order from Portugal for 100 EV charging columns
Siemens has received a major order for its model Charge CP700A charging point from Portugal. As part of the Portuguese program to promote electromobility (MOBI.E), Siemens Portugal concluded a framework agreement for delivery of up to 300 charging points. A binding order for 100 of these charging points was placed immediately by the customer INTELLI, as the coordinator of the Portuguese program. INTELLI is planning the setup of the charging infrastructure network in Portugal and intends to install the charging points in 25 cities by 2012, at public parking lots and near shopping centers, hotels and airports.
23 Aug 2011

Highlights of the IWPMA conference, Virginia Tech, 8-10 August
Professor Ray Baughman from the University of Texas at Dallas discussed in his keynote presentation the bi-scrolled yarns developed by his team.
2 Aug 2011

New generation materials for organic photovoltaic applications
German specialty chemicals producer Merck is embarking on a partnership with Nano-C, a developer of nano-structured carbon, for use in energy and electronics applications.
28 Jul 2011

Electric Vehicle Range Extenders - Rival Approaches
Led by the Japanese and with Hyundai of Korea, the Europeans and the Americans coming up fast, we are in the decade of the hybrid vehicle, with much more being spent on them than on pure electric vehicles. This is because traction batteries alone cannot affordably provide sufficient range in most of the large applications by land, sea or air.
26 Jul 2011

Impressions from Plug In 2011 USA
We attended the Plug In 2011 event in Raleigh North Carolina last week. In contrast to the successful IDTechEx event }}Electric Vehicles Land Sea Air | http://www.idtechex.com/electric-vehicles-europe-11/}} event in Stuttgart Germany, this had the more typical focus of cars. Organised by the Electric Power Research Institute and with many prestigious sponsors, it was a great success with over 600 attending on a given day excluding the public openings.
12 Jul 2011

Electric vehicle range extenders - a large new market
This article shares some of the research in the new IDTechEx report, {{Range Extenders for Electric Vehicles | http://www.idtechex.com/research/reports/range-extenders-for-electric-vehicles-2011-2021-000276.asp}}. We are in the age of the hybrid electric vehicle which is strongly outselling the pure electric vehicle in market value though not in numbers over the next decade.
27 Jun 2011

New organic photo detector company
Siemens exclusively licenses imaging technology to Nikkoia SAS
27 Jun 2011

World's first serial hybrid electric aircraft to fly at Le Bourget
Siemens AG, Diamond Aircraft and EADS are set to present the world's first aircraft with a serial hybrid electric drive system at the Paris Air Show Le Bourget 2011.
17 Jun 2011

John Rogers honored by Lemelson-MIT Prize
Official Lemelson-MIT Prize announcement honoring mc10 co-founder John Rogers.
16 Jun 2011

Much Bigger e-mobility picture revealed
Electric vehicle parts are not evolving: they are changing completely. Sometimes, the traction battery will be replaced by a supercapacitor or supercabattery and the dumb skin of the vehicle by smart skin. Energy harvesting and range extenders are new key enabling technologies and AC motors are often replacing DC motors. This is an industry in ferment.
15 Jun 2011

Electric bicycles and ebikes - the next ten years
IDTechEx has issued another report in its series on the various types of electric vehicle - hybrid and pure electric - and their future entitled Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) Industry Worldwide 2011-2021 (www.IDTecHEx.com/LEV). Electric vehicles by land, water and air will be a market of over $210 billion in ten years from now. The segments of this market are very different in certain respects yet they increasingly share some technical challenges and vehicle and component suppliers. This report concerns electric bicycles, ebikes and other Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) that constitute an important part of the overall EV business. Other reports in the series cover aircraft, marine, buses/taxis, military/police/security and cars.
15 Jun 2011

Electric vehicle value chain is changing
Currently the key enabling technologies in electric vehicles are motors, batteries and control systems. For the next ten years, add to that energy harvesting, supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) and range extenders that replace internal combustion engines in hybrids, notably fuel cells and mini turbines.
13 Jun 2011

Electric vehicle infrastructure surprises
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure will see a frenzy of change over the next ten years. That will involve how it is made and installed, how it operates and even whether it is needed at all. For example, the 1.3 million electric vehicles for the disabled, obese and elderly being sold this year will rise to over three million in 2021 and none of them will have a charging station - you simply plug them into a regular socket. Registering that the most convenient and affordable charging station is none at all, the e-bike manufacturers have at last started to move in the same direction. Adoption of the new lithium-ion batteries releases a huge amount of weight and space and a charger can now be fitted into the e-bike. That will become more affordable as the years go by. Here are some more of the surprises revealed during the research for the new IDTechEx report, "Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure 2011-2021".