California Energy Commission

3 billion dollars in rebates to support electric vehicle adoption

1.5 million electric vehicles will be on California roads by 2025, and 5 million by 2030, with the help of a new rebate program created by legislation announced by Assemblymember Phil Ting.

Potential usage of fuel cell technology in heavy-duty applications

Project Portal - a hydrogen fuel cell system designed for heavy duty truck use at the Port of Los Angeles.

Project turns waste heat to electricity

Vast amounts of energy are wasted every year in the form of heat. A new project seeks to efficiently capture that heat and convert it to electricity.

Fuel cell on-road vehicles will never be mainstream

A prediction by analysts IDTechEx is turning out to be true.The window of opportunity is closing for fuel cell on-road vehicles to become mainstream.

Route enabled refuse truck deployed

The first commercial application of a range-extended electric refuse truck.

Electric buses: billion dollar orders and crucibles of change

China alone may have 11 million electric buses by 2025 or not long after. The way they are getting costs down - something tracked by IDTechEx - that may be at a much lower price than today but still constitute about $1 trillion or more. Compare that over a decade or more with the IDTechEx projections of all global EV sales, land, water and air, in 2025 of around $500 billion. Buses matter.

Electric vehicle will offer free non-stop road travel

The new IDTechEx Research report, "High Power Energy Harvesting 2015-2025" (www.IDTechEx.com/high) appraises the many new ways in which the vehicle will internally harvest energy that is currently wasted as tyre and brake heat etc. so it needs much less externally supplied energy to get along. That alone will get us to a range of up to 1000 miles. In this article, let us look at how the increasingly infrequent charging can be done automatically without involving the driver and how it can grab externally-supplied electricity created from free ambient energy.

Manufacturing facility to meet all-electric truck and bus demand

Motiv Power Systems has received $8.1 million in grant funding from the California Energy Commission to continue the commercialization of its award-winning All-Electric Powertrain, including a new manufacturing facility in Hayward, California.

IDTechEx: China's RFID market value will reach $4.3 billion by 2025

Not only will the use of RFID in China become a $4.3 billion market in 2025, but that figure will almost double if we include the value of tags and readers made in the country and exported elsewhere.

RFID in China 2015-2025: Part 1 of 2

IDTechEx has been analysing the RFID market in China where the majority of the global production takes place. In this comprehensive two-part article series IDTechEx explores the market in China, assessing the role of the government, shifts in the value chain, differences between government-led and market-oriented companies, and trends in consumption of RFID tags by type (HF, UHF, MWF, etc) and application. This article will share our insight into this growing market territory and will provide ten-year market projections for the Chinese market segmented by more than 16 RFID applications.

New electric trucks

The new IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles 2015-2025 forecasts in eleven categories because so much is now happening.

BOE

BOE started in 1993 as Beijing Orient Electronics Group Co, manufacturing electron tubes. BOE is now the biggest LCD panel manufacturer in China, ahead of 5 other manufacturers. They have LCD fabs in Beijing, Hefei, Ordos, Chengdu and He Bei. Since 2011, BOE has invested in building AMOLED production capacity. This profile is about their effort in AMOLED displays.

Cutting electric vehicle energy use 51 percent

Researchers have shown that a vehicle navigation tool they created can cut electric vehicle energy use up to 51 percent.

Smart car meets smart charger at UC San Diego

Known as the Intelligent Charging Project, the California Energy Commission-funded endeavor brings together smart fortwo electric drives from Daimler, electric vehicle charging stations supplied by RWE - Germany's second largest utility - and the University of California, San Diego as the demonstration site.

$20 million contract to supply electric pickups and vans to fleets

VIA Motors has signed a contract to build & deliver $20 million dollars of electric pick-up trucks and vans to over 50 participating fleets.

Ricardo looking at standardization of battery systems for PEVs

Ricardowill be working with Electricore, who has received a $750,000 award from California Energy Commission to perform a comprehensive survey of the commercial plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) marketplace and to propose value-based design options for standardization of battery systems.

State plugs-in to electric vehicles & charging stations

The California Department of General Services (DGS) announced the delivery of 10 new Nissan Leaf zero-emission vehicles, which will replace 10 existing vehicles in the DGS daily rental fleet.

Funding for piezoelectricity project

Preliminary research on the potential of using California's roadways to generate green electricity.