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The Future of Automotive Refrigerants After PFAS

While the focus of the automotive market has been on electrification to meet CO2 regulations, these are not the only regulations that will significantly impact the automotive industry. PFAS are becoming a greater concern throughout multiple industries. With the uncertainty around PFAS regulations, there are a few avenues that automotive players could pursue to replace the refrigerants they use.

Seurat Technologies

Seurat Technologies is a US startup developing "Area Printing" - a large format metal laser powder bed fusion technology. IDTechEx spoke with Craig Colman, Head of Marketing at Seurat.

Ambarella

Ambarella is a fabless semiconductor company, based in Silicon Valley. It has a long history of designing chips for video processing, used in applications like digital camcorders and surveillance systems. It is now embracing AI in its products and enabling many new applications in the video processing space with its edge AI chips. IDTechEx visited Ambarella in Santa Clara where they discussed Ambarella's automotive technologies.

Q Power

Q Power Oy is a Finnish start-up developing and commercializing its biocatalytic methanation technology for the production of e-methane.

Roboshuttles: A Promising Yet Challenging Mobility Solution

Roboshuttles are small, fully electric, and operate at Level 4 autonomy, making them an ideal last-mile solution. They were once highly anticipated in the autonomous driving industry as a promising mobility solution, and at one point, over 25 companies were competing in this space. However, IDTechEx has observed a yearly decline in the number of active companies from 2020 to 2024, and the industry has not advanced to the large-scale commercial testing phases as hoped.

VES

Vacuum Engineering Services (VES) designs and manufactures leak testing solutions for production environments of several industries.

Geo2Watts

Geo2Watts™ is developing a thermal energy storage (TES) technology, named the Borehole Battery™, designed for long duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

FLEXOO

FLEXOO is a spin-off of InnovationLab GmbH, which specialises in the development and manufacture of printed electronics solutions. FLEXOO designs and manufactures printed pressure and temperature sensors for battery health monitoring solutions, in addition to providing accompanying readout electronics. IDTechEx caught up with Head of Business Development, Florian Ullrich, at LOPEC 2024 in Munich, Germany.

Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) Market Outlook & Packaging Technology Trends

Over the past decade, the capacity of data center Ethernet switches has surged from 0.64 Tbps to 25.6 Tbps, driven by the adoption of 64x400 Gbps or 32x800 Gbps pluggable optical transceiver modules. However, these high-speed modules, within their current form factors, pose significant challenges. Issues include the required densities of electrical and optical connectors, as well as escalating power consumption.

AFC Energy

AFC Energy is a UK-based alkaline fuel cell (AFC) manufacturer, supplying transportable, stationary fuel cells for on-site power generation. IDTechEx spoke to Michael Sheffield, the Commercial Director at AFC Energy.

Honeywell UOP: CO₂ Solutions

Honeywell UOP is an American multi-national company, with carbon capture technologies being one of the company's offerings. Honeywell UOP presented its new ASCC technology at the Carbon Capture Technology Expo North America 2024.

Integrated Power Electronics Drive Electric Vehicle Costs Down

Efficiency is the key goal of electric vehicle development. This is especially true of power electronics, where one increasingly adopted approach is to integrate multiple functions into the same package. For automotive OEMs, this can result in reductions in overall weight to increase the efficiency of the vehicle while also reducing the cost of production.

Wrightbus

Wrightbus is a UK-based manufacturer of zero-emission buses. It produces both full electric and hydrogen fuel cell models and has experienced strong sales in the European market in recent years.

Samsung SDI — Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)

Samsung SDI is a leading manufacturer of Li-ion cells and batteries as well as of materials for screen displays.

Fraunhofer IKTS: SOEC/SOFC Technology

Fraunhofer IKTS has developed its CFY stack technology, which can be operated reversibly in solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) or fuel cell (SOFC) mode. The institute has formed a partnership with thyssenkrupp nucera, a large electrolyzer OEM, to commercialize and mass produce the technology.

Dissolving the Plastic Waste Problem: Exploring a Nascent Technology

The advanced recycling market predominantly focuses on technologies like pyrolysis and depolymerization (thermal, chemical, and enzymatic). To a lesser extent, methods such as gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction are also being explored. However, these technologies face increasing scrutiny and restrictions in some regions due to their environmental impact.

Boréas Technologies

Boréas Technologies is a fabless Canadian semiconductor company supplying low-power drivers for piezoelectric actuation and sensing. Haptics are the primary commercial use-case to date, with micro-pumps for applications including mobile device cooling expected to be important in the near-future.

Honda Motor Co. Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese automobile manufacturer founded in 1948. This profile will focus on Honda's offerings and strategy for the electrification of cars.

XCMG: Electric & Autonomous Mining Vehicles

XCMG is a world-leading OEM of construction and mining machines. This profile will focus on the company's developments in the electrification and automation of mining vehicles.

Bugatti Automobiles

Bugatti Automobiles is a French luxury sports car manufacturer based in Moslheim that has been making vehicles in various forms since 1909. The most recent development in its 115-year history is its role in a joint venture with Rimac, a manufacturer of high-end performance electric vehicles (EV). Bugatti has recently unveiled its first electric car, the hybrid Tourbillon.