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Taiwan goes up market with EVs

Taiwan makes electric bicycles but mainly with most of the added value being in China, often by collaboration, in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers.

OLED development reduces heat compared to fluorescent lighting

Under a program funded by the DoE, titled "Thermal Management of High-Efficacy White Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Devices," Universal Display will design and build white PHOLED lighting panels to evaluate the impact of operating temperature on performance.

DuPont opens North American photovoltaic research facility

Applications lab fosters innovation to accelerate R&D to meet fast growing solar market

Major new advances in energy harvesting

There have been concerns about the limitations of the various energy harvesting technologies which might explain the modest success of energy harvesting in electronics beyond the widespread use of photovoltaics.

Safer electric scooter

Inventor Nick Schotter contact@4-mc.co.uk has developed a four wheel scooter that is far less likely to fall over than a two wheeled one.

Xenon Corporation ushers in the newest generation of photonic curing

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Active RFID applications using IEEE 802.15.4

At the recent IDTechEx conference Wireless Sensor Networks and RTLS Europe in Munich, Colin Faulkner of the UK fabless semiconductor company Jennic spoke on Active RFID Applications Using IEEE 802.15.4.

Here comes China - part one

China makes and uses over 90% of the world's e-bikes. It also makes pure electric forklifts and other heavy industrial EVs, though with little attempt to export them as yet.

Project Oscar develops organic photovoltaics

OSCAR, short for 'Organic Solar Cells by ARmor', is a project carried out by a consortium of five companies, including Armor (initiator and project leader), INES (Institut National de l'Energie Solaire), LCPO (Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques), Plasto SAS and Amcor Flexibles Europe & Americas

Spire matches world record for solar cell efficiency

Spire Corporation, an American global solar company providing capital equipment and turnkey production lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules and cells, has announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor, LLC, has matched the current efficiency record for a concentrator solar cell.

Green vehicle expo heads to Shanghai

Green Vehicle Expo heads to Shanghai June 17-19.

White Amethyst and White Sapphire intelligent OLED light

E2M Technology has launched two OLED systems for OLED lighting applications, White Amethyst™ and White Sapphire™.

U.S. scientists design smart underpants that could save lives

A team of U.S. scientists has designed some new men's briefs that may be comfortable, durable and even stylish but, unlike most underpants, may be able to save lives.

Electric Vehicles- The Clever Ten Year Strategies

The electric vehicle business is over $33 billion today at ex factory prices but cars are less than half of that. As the market nearly quintuples over the next ten years, cars will rise to nearly 55% of the business but the devil is in the detail...

US truck, bus, military EV producers get active

manufacturing plant will produce 2,500 electric buses a year, and employ around 1,300 workers over the next five years

Scientists strive to replace silicon with graphene on nanocircuity

Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors.

ZigBee wireless temperature sensor energized by a thermo generator

At the recent IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage conference Europe in Munich, an excellent presentation was given by the $20 billion Schneider Electric on a ZigBee Wireless Temperature Sensor Energized by a Thermo Generator.

LG Display number one in the e-reader market by 2012 - and in color

LG Display plan to take the global number 1 position in the e-reader market by 2012 with the introduction of a flexible, color Electronic Paper Display (EPD) stated the Company yesterday.

Jaguar Land Rover expands interest in EVs

Hybrid Jaguars will include the XJ and XF and eventually every model

Powered by a heartbeat

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a method that could lead to medical devices that are powered by a patient's heartbeat.