31 May 2019

New Electric Vehicle Motors Grab Sales
Huge companies make traction motors for electric vehicles. After all, as the IDTechEx report, "Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles: Land, Water, Air 2019-2029" details, every EV has at least one traction motor and increasingly they have many, including one electric aircraft with no less than 36.
31 May 2019

Expert Analysis On Electric Vehicle & Energy Storage Technologies
Plug-in electric cars are forecast by IDTechEx to sell over 25million units per year in 2029 making up around 30% of total sales by that point. However, electrification does not stop at cars; buses, trucks, construction, mining, two-wheelers, boats, aircraft, and more are all progressing towards electric drive. This combined market shift makes the technologies enabling this transformation a key battleground with plenty to win and lose.
31 May 2019

Electric Vehicles Go High Voltage
The new IDTechEx report, "Electric Vehicles 2020-2030" is the most thorough on the subject with 100 categories forecasted by number and market value and many newly-revealed trends and predictions.
31 May 2019

New Report Forecasts E-Textiles will Reach Over $2 Billion by 2029
IDTechEx have released the latest edition of the most comprehensive report on the e-textiles industry. "E-Textiles 2019-2029: Technologies, Markets and Players" compiles over 6 years of work. There are over 200 companies in the database supporting the report, and IDTechEx analysts have conducted primary research on over 100 companies in order to collate the data and contents for the report itself.
31 May 2019

3D-print a bathroom in a day
Researchers have developed the capability to 3D print an unfurnished bathroom in less than a day.
External press release
31 May 2019

Falling Renewable Power Costs Open Door to Greater Climate Ambition
Renewable power is the cheapest source of electricity in many parts of the world already today, the latest report from the International Renewable Energy Agency shows.
31 May 2019

'Submarines' small enough to deliver medicine inside human body
Engineers have shown that micro-submarines powered by nano-motors could navigate the human body to provide targeted drug delivery to diseased organs without the need for external stimulus.
30 May 2019

Ultrahaptics acquire Leap Motion for a reported $30m
Ultrahaptics announced the acquisition of Leap Motion on May 30th 2019, for a reported $30m. This brings Leap Motion's prominent and popular hand tracking technique alongside Ultrahaptics' contactless haptic feedback technique. The two technologies have inherent synergy, with the haptic feedback systems capable of being configured based on hand tracking for the user.
30 May 2019

Power electronic modules: growth opportunity for conductive pastes?
Power electronics is a growing market thanks to electrification of many industries including the automotive industry.
30 May 2019

Supercapacitor Turnaround
The supercapacitor market has bottomed out and is now into a sustained period of strong growth. Recent actions of three giant companies not usually associated with supercapacitors illustrate why.
30 May 2019

Field trials of raspberry harvesting robot system
University of Plymouth spinout company Fieldwork Robotics has completed initial field trials of its robot raspberry harvesting system.
30 May 2019

Wind Industry creates Africa Task Force to speed up development
The Global Wind Industry Council has set up a new Task Force to speed up and facilitate the development of wind energy in Africa.
Youtube interview
30 May 2019

Washable smart garments
Lunative, the multi award-winning German forerunner in "Smart Light Wear Technology" for textile and fashion products provides OEMs and B2B partners in textile, functional wear and fashion industry ready-made and customized solutions - suitable for a huge range of smart clothes, e-textiles and new textile-based smart applications.
30 May 2019

Electric field-based dressing to help heal wound infections
Researchers have found a way to charge up the fight against bacterial infections using electricity.
30 May 2019

Using AI to land drones smoothly
New system employs a deep neural network to overcome the challenge of ground-effect turbulenc.
External press release
30 May 2019

Flexitricity partners with Anesco to optimise battery assets
Flexitricity will provide market access for 19.5MW of Anesco's battery storage portfolio. Renewables and energy storage developer Anesco is one of the largest battery developers in the UK and made history by installing the first utility scale battery storage unit in the UK.
30 May 2019

Selenium improves thin film solar cells
The rows of blue solar panels that dot landscapes and rooftops are typically made out of crystalline silicon, the workhorse semiconductor found in virtually every electronic device.
External press release
30 May 2019

Highview Power to bring giga-scale cryogenic energy storage to Chile
Highview Power's expansion into Chile comes at a crucial time for the country as growing energy demand, high electricity costs, and changing consumption patterns require energy solutions that are clean, reliable and cost-efficient while supporting the nation's grid, providing critical backup power during power outages and natural disasters and solving problems for key industries, like mining.
30 May 2019

Wearable brain devices marketed to consumers raise ethical questions
Wearable brain devices are now being marketed directly to consumers and often claim to deliver benefits like boosting memory and modulating symptoms of depression. Although the industry is quickly growing, little is known about the validity of these claims and the related ethical consequences or repercussions.
Update interview
29 May 2019

Tacterion
IDTechEx interviewed Daniel Strohmayr, Co-CEO of Tacterion at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, April 2019.