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Liberty Electric Cars

Liberty Electric Cars, founded in 2007, is a privately held clean technology company which designs, engineers and manufactures, electric vehicle technologies, to serve growing demand for zero-emission transport solutions. The company turns over a $5 million dollar revenue and has operations in Coventry, Newton Abbot, Heathrow and Peterborough, in the UK.

Bradshaw Electric

Bradshaw Electric Vehicles is a family-owned business, in Peterborough UK, spun off from its farming activity in 1965. It was into construction and importing electric scissor platforms from the USA and bumped into Taylor Dunn in the mid-seventies and has been reselling their vehicles ever since. Firstly, Bradshaw Electric Vehicles simply sold the small industrial tugs and carriers and then Club Car golf vehicles. Customers often wanted adaptations, so Bradshaw did these, though now, 165 of its 250 yearly vehicle output involves vehicles it designs and makes from scratch.

MeadWestvaco Corporation

This profile briefly discusses printed electronics and its potential and challenges from the point of view of MeadWestVaco.

Diageo

Diageo is a British multi-national alcoholic beverages company. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine. Diageo's brands include Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Baileys, and Guinness. This article discuss views of Diageo towards printed electronics.

Ayton Willow

Ayton Willow was founded in 2010 in Coventry and focuses on research and technological development, product lifecycle engineering prototyping and production. Technical, R&D and design services for the automotive EV industry. The company currently employs ten people.

JSR Micro, Inc. / JM Energy Corp.

JSR Micro of Japan makes materials for semiconductors and displays such . In energy storage for EVs etc its JM Energy makes both lithium-ion and lithium capacitor devices and materials. It also has a life sciences division. IDTechEx had a conversation with Jeff Myron and Hasegawa-San, both in charge of the supercapacitor business.

The future of printed piezoresistive sensors

Sensing is an increasingly important application in printed electronics, partly because printed sensors can enable new ways to interact with machines and smart devices. In this article, IDTechEx takes a closer look at a well-established printed sensor technology: printed piezoresistive sensors.

FUJIFILM

Fujifilm has been actively developing a flexible high barrier film and this profile focuses mainly on these activities.

Komori Corporation

This profile focuses on describing Komori's printing presses and systems technology.

NanoGram Corp

This profile describes Nanogram Teijin's silicon nanoparticle technology

Philips Corporate Technologies

The smart window/glass technology from Philips is based on e-paper principles - particles are moved from the edge of a cell across a cell when voltage is applied. Light transmission through the glass can be controlled between 1 to 70%

Mazda

Mazda Motor Corporation is a Japanese car manufacturer based in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture. It was the fifteenth biggest automaker worldwide with sales of $20 billion that year. Over the past thirty years FORD had a strong interest in the company, owning up to a third of the company at one point, but it has now completely scaled back and owns just 3% of the company. The company is launching a new concept of hybrid electric car, the first supercapacitor based car in 2014.

Pipistrel

World's leading electric aircraft manufacturer and the only one with ten years of sales.

Ruckmarine

Distributes Torqeedo Electric Outboards, Team Scarab Electric Sportboats, and solar PowerSkiffs

Tesla Motors

Tesla is the world's sixth largest EV manufacturers coming from nothing in a few years with its Apple-like "must have" product propositions in up-market electric cars and soon pure electric mainstream cars and light commercial vehicles.

Yutong Group

Yutong Group of China is the world's largest bus and electric bus manufacturer and the 11th largest manufacturer of electric vehicles in the world.

Hyster-Yale

Hyster-Yale was created in 2012 by Nacco Industries spinning off 80% of its business to create this pure-play intralogistics vehicle manufacturer. It is fourth largest in this business and 8th largest EV manufacturer in the world.

Jungheinrich AG

Jungheinrich is the world's third largest manufacturer of intralogistics vehicles and number five in EVs as a whole.

OXIS Energy

Oxis Energy is a lithium sulphur battery technology developer company based in the UK. It is one of the few companies developing this technology. Targeting the automotive, defense and energy storage market the company has developed partnerships and received invesments from companies across the whole value chain of the electric vehicle industry.

Daimler AG

Daimler AG is a major automotive company with electric vehicle activities under Orion bus, Smart car, Mercedes car and commercial vehicle brands and other activities including an e-scooter. Its fuel cell development for EVs and roll out program is up with the global leaders.