Electric vehicles

The electric and hybrid marine market will increase rapidly from $2.6 billion in 2013 to over $7.3 billion by 2024.

Terra Motors Corporation, Japan's top electric two & three wheeler developer, manufacturer, and retailer announced the completion of a ＄10 million round of financing for the expansion of its business into the Asian electric vehicle (EV) market.

Electric van manufacturer Smith Electric Vehicles is to resume production this summer, following a $42m (£25m) funding from Chinese firm Sinopoly Battery Limited.

The international media launch of the BMW i8 in Los Angeles will include the presentation of a solar carport concept.

easyJet, the UK's largest airline, has announced it is working with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), a partnership between the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), to modify existing technology so that drones can be employed to inspect its fleet of 220 Airbus aircraft.

The Electric Highway, Ecotricity's national network of electricity pumps for electric cars, and the biggest network in Britain, has grown rapidly in reach over the last year and by the end of this year there will be an Electric Highway pump at every motorway services in Britain.

General Motors has began construction of a state-of-the-art facility for race engine design and development, as well as an electric motor laboratory and gear center.

Personal Helicopters, Volocopters and Fixed Wing Electric Aircraft is a field under continuous development. This article will present some of the latest developments, presenting which are the pioneer companies developing the technologies of future air electric personal mobility.

The British Government is going to invest £500 million into electric cars. The funding, brought forward by the Lib Dems, will boost the ultra-low emissions vehicle industry and help drivers afford and feel more confident using electric cars.

A bus built by Proterra has set a record for the most miles travelled by a battery-electric bus in a day - traveling more than 700 miles in 24 hours. Equally impressive is the fact that on this trip the bus recorded an average fuel economy of nearly 27 miles per gallon - nearly six times that of a diesel bus and seven times that of CNG.

Volvo Car Group's groundbreaking project 'Drive Me' - featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions - is moving forward rapidly.

The successful first public flight of the electric E-Fan experimental aircraft was the highlight of Airbus Group's E-Aircraft Day in Bordeaux, France.

Siemens AG and Chinese car maker Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co., Ltd. (BAIC) signed a joint venture at the 2014 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition and outlined their plan to utilize Siemens' electric drive train components in a range of BAIC vehicles.

Daimler Mobility Services is a subsidiary of Daimler financial services, this company is in charge of developing the car sharing scheme Car2Go that uses Daimler's Smart in its fuel and electric version.

Sinautec is a Chinese company developing electric buses. Interestingly they have developed a bus technology that uses only supercapacitors as energy storage device. This is possible only because they charge quickly the SC at each bus stop. This principle is known as opportunity charging which has been adopted by ABB as well in their TOSA charging system in Geneva.

"The Volkswagen Group is once again assuming a pioneering role in China and launching the biggest initiative for e-mobility in China's automotive history", said Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft at the Auto China motor show in Beijing.

Siemens Drive Technologies has announced that it is supplying an integrated high-tech diesel-electric drive and power-generation propulsion solution for a multipurpose offshore construction vessel (MOCV) that's being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries for Toisa at the largest shipyard in the world in Ulsan, South Korea.

A pioneering £31 million deal has been struck to make hydrogen vehicles a viable and environmentally friendly choice for motorists across Europe.

With an ageing population in developed countries, mobility for the disabled is a key electric vehicle category to follow. The biggest market is Europe, where scooters are favoured and the second biggest market is the USA where power chairs are favoured. Nowadays a mobility vehicle for the disabled is virtually always in the form of a seat on three to six wheels, which is made colourful, attractive and easy to operate.

Havyard has signed a contract for the construction of a Havyard 833 WE ICE platform supply vessel with Fafnir Offshore HF.