Electric vehicles

JCB has unveiled its first ever electric excavator - the quietest digger in its range and one delivering zero emissions.

GreenPower Motor Company Inc has announced that its EV350 40-Foot All-Electric Transit Bus has outperformed its original range expectations. The zero-emission vehicle recently traveled 205 miles with 50% state of charge remaining battery-pack power after the trip.

Hitachi Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE have demonstrated a pioneering project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building.

smart is the first car brand with its sights set on a clean-cut switchover from combustion engines to electric drive: from 2020 the company plans to exclusively sell smart models with battery-electric drive in Europe and the USA. The rest of the world is expected to follow soon afterwards.

Corvus Energy has been selected by Stena Line and Callenberg Technology Group to supply the lithium ion-based Energy Storage System for the battery-power retrofit of M/V Stena Jutlandica.

This is part 3 in a three part series where IDTechEx analysts explore their findings from AABC 2018.

A Roomba-like ocean trash collector modelled on a whale shark and a microplastic filter made from jellyfish slime could prevent litter from entering our oceans and help tackle a growing problem that poses threats to wildlife, deters tourists and impacts on coastal economies.

Diesel vehicles land, water and air, are on the way out because they emit poisons. However, the new electronics and electrics in and on vehicles appearing over the next ten years will contain most those poisons and add more.

Zipline's mission is to bring life-saving medicine to the most difficult to reach places on the planet. The company operates the world's first and only national scale drone delivery system, making thousands of deliveries per year. Zipline's newest generation of autonomous aircraft flies farther, faster and with more cargo than was ever before possible— even in high altitude, heavy wind, or rain.

EXOMO is a collaboration between Aeronature, the first electric paramotor school, and Aero Composites Saintonge, the aeronautics specialist of electric propulsion and maker of the E-Fan demonstrator for the Airbus Group.

MAN is now selling a fully electric van, another step forwards in the direction of zero-emission metropolitan areas. Providing a range of up to 160 kilometres and a payload of 950 to 1,700 kilo-grams, the electric MAN TGE is ideally equipped depending on the type approval (3.5 or 4.25 tonnes).

When it comes to the special sauce of batteries, researchers have discovered it's all about the salt concentration. By getting the right amount of salt, right where they want it, they've demonstrated a small lithium-metal battery can re-charge about seven times more than batteries with conventional electrolytes.

I interviewed Mr Yuko Matsushita from Panasonic

Unifly is UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and drone fleet management software provider. They are a software company that creates aviation-related solutions for the integration of drones and manned aviation.

Parrot is a relatively an old company. Its core business (automotive) is in decline hence it has been looking for alternatives business. This is why it entered the drone business in the recent past.

The classic Mini Electric combines the historic look of the world's favorite small car with groundbreaking drive technology for tomorrow's urban mobility.

This is part 2 in a three part series where IDTechEx analysts explore their findings from AABC 2018.

The programme will see researchers recreate flying environments for drones as digital models, taking into account a wide range of factors like air traffic, buildings and electricity lines, and then testing them in the real world at Waterford Airport and other selected locations around Ireland.

The electric vehicle charging infrastructure conundrum will be discussed at Electric Vehicles Everything is Changing, part of the IDTechEx Show!, in Berlin on 11-12 April.

The IDTechEx Show! presents a new masterclass on the existing and emerging applications of fiber laser technologies on Friday 13th April, at the Estrel Convention Center in Berlin.