Electric vehicles

IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday 15 February 2018 titled Electrically Smart Roads 2018-2028.

BP announced that its venturing business has invested $5 million in FreeWire Technologies Inc, a US-based manufacturer of mobile electric vehicle rapid charging systems, and plans to roll out FreeWire's Mobi Charger units for use at selected BP retail sites in the UK and Europe during 2018.

A number of IDTechEx analysts attended CES 2018, exploring the key themes prevalent in a variety of sectors, including: healthcare, neuroscience, 3D printing, e-textiles, haptics and electric vehicles.

Taking action to further California's climate leadership, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed an executive order to boost the supply of zero-emission vehicles and charging and refueling stations in California. The Governor also detailed the new plan for investing $1.25 billion in cap-and-trade auction proceeds to reduce carbon pollution and improve public health and the environment.

Corvus Energy is a leading provider of ruggedized energy storage systems for industrial maritime markets, and is based out of Canada. It is active in segments such as offshore oil and gas, exploration and port equipment.

A Tesla Model S traveling at 65 mph crashed into a stationary fire truck, the electric car was on Autopilot when the collision happened.

One of the biggest unknowns for the future of Earth's climate is Antarctica, where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds so much ice that if it collapsed could bring several feet of rising seas. A new partnership will use a robotic network to observe the conditions beneath a floating Antarctic ice shelf.

FLIR are a leading company in the development of infrared imaging systems. Their impressive booth at CES 2018 displayed innovation towards smartphone-compatible infrared cameras, and potential systems for adding infrared to the suite of ADAS inputs for increasingly autonomous vehicles.

Aisin are a large automotive Tier 1 supplier.

See Sense have developed smart bike lights containing sensors to provide data that can be valuable to the user and the local environment. IDTechEx spoke to Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Irene McAleese at their booth in the H2020 pavilion at CES 2018.

Glatus is a brand behind a smart driving sunglasses product. Slightly unusually, the company behind the product is global ad agency Innocean. They developed it for Hyundai who showed the product in their connected driving vision.

Robotic technology is quietly transforming the world of agriculture. In this article, we demonstrate how diverse this emerging industry is in terms of forms, functions and fortunes.

Gentex Corporation showed its biometric authentication solution based on its Mirror-Integrated Iris Scan Technology at CES 2018

Denso showed a curved OLED design at CES 2018

What if LiDAR sensors can be integrated inside the car? AGC Automotive showed its solution "Wideye" at CES 2018, with the partnership of DIBOTICS.

In 2019 Volvo Trucks will start selling electric medium-duty trucks in Europe, and the first units will be put into operation together with a few selected reference customers already this year.

List, a research institute of CEA Tech has developed a rotary knob that integrates a highly programmable passive brake .

Metasonics have developed several technologies using ultrasound that could be relevant to the consumer market.

Fuel cells have the potential to be a clean and efficient way to run cars, computers, and power stations, but the cost of producing them is limiting their use. That's because a key component of the most common fuel cells is a catalyst made from the precious metal platinum.

It's a landmark day for London and its thousands of taxi drivers and passengers as the very first all-new electric TX taxi from the London EV Company has been handed over.