23 Jul 2015

Test environment for connected and driverless vehicles
he University of Michigan has opened Mcity, the world's first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars.
13 Jul 2015

Winners in electric vehicle batteries
IDTechEx is the only market analyst tracking the development of 45 electric vehicle categories and not just electric cars.
3 Jul 2015

Technological megatrends for vehicles
There are three important technological megatrends for vehicles that are now coming increasingly important. They are shaping what is designed and the market positioning of new vehicles from type of customer targeted to the location where the vehicles will be used.
2 Jul 2015

National electric vehicle strategies strongly diverge
The industrial and commercial electric vehicle business will be 42% of the EV market in 2025 on IDTechEx analysis with well over 50% of the profits because so much of it is specialist and niche and the vehicles are not bought on up-front price.
22 Jun 2015

Jet engine range extenders for electric vehicles
In May 2015, Californian Company, Wrightspeed announced the Fulcrum, a gas turbine on-board range extender for charging the batteries of electric vehicles.
11 Jun 2015

Calcium batteries might be more powerful than lithium batteries
Jean-Yves Sánchez researches the development of calcium batteries that can compete with lithium batteries.
5 Jun 2015

Fuel cell electric vehicles 2015-2030: surprises continue
This article shares some of the findings of the new IDTechEx Research report, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air and some of what will be discussed in the forthcoming IDTechEx webinar on 9th June.
4 Jun 2015

Making the cleanest cars affordable
The California Air Resource Board is initiating a pilot project in the Greater Los Angeles area and San Joaquin Valley to help low-income individuals and families get rid of old polluting vehicles and purchase much cleaner and more fuel-efficient cars.
1 Jun 2015

The direction of development in autonomous vehicle research
Autonomous vehicles uses a portfolio of sensors that is highly dependent on Lidar technology, given the high price of these sensors, researchers are looking how to reduce the reliance on this technology through enhancing the capabilities of cheaper sensor technologies.
28 May 2015

Webinar 9 June: Fuel Cell Vehicles 2015-2030
IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 9 June 2015.
22 May 2015

Industrial and commercial electric vehicles: see the future
The IDTechEx report Industrial and Commercial Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles 2015-2025 now finds that Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles operating on land will constitute a huge 42% of the value market for electric vehicles, land, water and airborne in 2025.
21 May 2015

R&D breakthrough sets stage for more efficient fuel cell stacks
A breakthrough in the real-time observation of fuel cell catalyst degradation could lead to a new generation of more efficient and durable fuel cell stacks.
10 May 2015

IDTechEx: Invest Now in Fuel Cell Vehicles?
There is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles. Nonetheless some manufacturers are very enthusiastic and now could be the beginning of the end of the trough of disillusionment, indeed the time to invest.
Full profile interview: Partners
6 May 2015

SolidEnergy
In 2013, SolidEnergy formed a partnership with the newly formed A123 Venture Technologies to leverage its state-of-the-art facilities to accelerate commercialization. It ended in 2016.
24 Apr 2015

IDTechEx: Invest now in fuel cell vehicles?
There is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles.
23 Apr 2015

Electric vehicles: better not cheaper
At analysts IDTechEx we are often questioned about our forecasts of prices of certain electric vehicles not going down over future years. The answer is twofold.
17 Apr 2015

IDTechEx analyses the high stakes of the future automotive industry
Why BASF sues Umicore, Toyota launches fuel cell cars, VW buys a solid state battery company and all car companies are rushing behind Google for automation? The bigger picture of the high stakes of the future automotive industry.
3 Apr 2015

Crossover motorcycles in new multi-billion dollar market
The new IDTechEx report, "Electric Motorcycles and Three Wheel Electric Vehicles 2015-2025" reveals gaps in the market as e-motorcycles and their three wheel derivatives become a multi-billion dollar market. One gap is the crossover between bikes and motorcycles created as a premium-priced product.
External press release
19 Mar 2015

CPT's new technical centre in Coventry
The official opening by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) of its new engineering technical centre in the West Midlands.
13 Mar 2015

Hybrid vehicle range extenders: goodbye pistons
Hybrid vehicles are already big business from hybrid cars, buses and trucks to outdoor forklifts, even hybrid tugboats.