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The light industrial & commercial EV business will exceed $20b by 2023

IDTechEx projects that 119,000 electric taxis will be sold giving a $1.8 billion global market. Most of the commercial electric vehicles, including the taxis, are and will be pure electric. That will even be true of large commercial vehicles, notably e-buses, set to exceed a $20 billion market as early as 2018 and dominated by demand in China.

X-Wind, shows-off the future of distributed energy generation

X-Wind Power, manufacturer of the worlds most advanced vertical axis wind turbines, shows for the first time the potential of its technology, with the setting-up of a demonstration project with the UK's largest energy user, Network Rail.

Photosynthesis to power devices

Nature has perfected the art of using the Sun to fuel growth. A team of international researchers looked into what is needed to recreate the process artificially.

New Catalyst replaceable platinum for electric-automobiles

Researchers have developed a novel bio-inspired composite electrocatalyst outperforming platinum.

Financing to develop metallic conductive ink technology

Liquid X™ Printed Metals, Inc., a Carnegie Mellon University start-up company, has announced the closing of a Series A financing round, and that it has named former Bayer Corporation President and CEO Greg Babe to serve as CEO of Liquid X™.

World's first ebus powered by Iron-Phosphate battery with 250km range

The world's first electric bus powered by Iron-Phosphate battery is being trialled in the Polish Capital. MZA Warsaw, the municipal transport company, is testing the environmentally friendly bus from the Chinese auto giant BYD.

Solliance and imec 9.7% efficiency with thin-film CZTSe solar cell

A CZTSe (Cu2ZnSnSe4)-based solar cell with 9.7 percent efficiency (1x1cm2, AM1.5G).

EV Roadmap 6 Conference to be held in Portland, OR July 30-31

Come to beautiful Portland, Oregon for EV Roadmap 6: Drivers Take the Spotlight, a conference to be held July 30-31, 2013.

International attendance for Printed Electronics Asia

The speakers at the unique event Printed Electronics Asia 2013 are flying in from the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, France, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Korea. There are many speakers from research institutes and companies in Japan as well. Analysts IDTechEx, who are organising the event, have chosen best-in-class speakers from the whole world.

Printing innovations allow 10-fold improvement in organic electronics

Through innovations to a printing process, researchers have made major improvements to organic electronics—a technology in demand for lightweight, low-cost solar cells, flexible electronic displays and tiny sensors.

Award winning Powercoat paper at Printed Electronics Asia 2013

PowerCoat® is a remarkable new paper that facilitates the seamless integration of electronic functionality and printed graphics.

Supercapacitor yarn: small fibres are powerful batteries

An international research team has developed a novel way to turn small fibres into powerful batteries with ultrafast charge and discharge rates.

Conductive Inks- Markets and Analysis

Innovation in the field of nanotechnology has largely enabled a high level of product differentiation. Indeed, the market today contains graphene, carbon nanotubes, and silver and copper nanostructure (nanoparticle and nanowire) inks, all of which have one or two dimensions in the nanoscale.

Carbon nanotube inks to drive innovation

Linde's carbon nanotube inks can be used to manufacture completely new technologies, such as a smartphone with a screen that rolls up like a window shade and a see-through GPS device embedded in the windshield of a car.

Breakthough graphene inks to accelerate graphene applications

Graphene based inks with properties that quickly enable its customers to use graphene in a wide range of applications

Solar power heads in a new direction: thinner

Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing. But now researchers are opening another avenue for improvement, aiming to produce the thinnest and most lightweight solar panels possible.

EC cuts greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry

The European Commission proposed legislation which will require owners of large ships using EU ports to monitor and report the ships' annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Nissan unveils Le Mans prototype plans for fastest electric racing car

Nissan unveiled the groundbreaking, innovative ZEOD RC - the world's fastest electric racing car that will reach speeds of more than 300km/h with electric technology at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Floating wind and current hybrid power generation system

The SKWID is a floating wind and current hybrid power generation system capable of converting two inexhaustible ocean energy sources into abundant power.

Imaging defects in solar cells

A research team has, for the first time, succeeded in functionally characterizing the active layer in organic thin-film solar cells using laser light for localized excitation of the material.