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Electric Vehicle Market Forecasts

The new report from IDTechEx Hybrid & Pure Electric Vehicles for Land, Water & Air 2013-2023: Forecasts, Technologies, Players finds that the total market for hybrid and pure electric vehicles will grow from 38.8 million vehicles (of all types) in 2013 to 116 million vehicles in 2023 - a $294 billion market.

OLED brings out the shine

Screens made of organic light diodes promise unfathomable possibilities. Yet high production costs often prevent their widespread use. A new kind of production saves not only costs, but also improves the radiance of the OLED.

Solar powered wheelchair wins

The chair uses lightweight and robust materials and high-efficiency solar cells with custom-fabricated solar panels that encompass over one square meter when deployed without adding significantly to its length, width, height or weight when stored.

Rolith, Inc.

Rolith, Inc has developed a rolling mask lithography technology based on near field optical lithography and with the ability to pattern 300 nm features or better. They have attracted strategic funding from Asahi Glass Corporation, which is a major player in their target customer group. Their business model is to sell equipment through their partner, Suss MicroTec, and to directly design and sell masks. Their main technological competitor is nano-imprint.

Phoenix to Dallas flight sets distance world record for solar aviation

Solar Impulse, successfully landed in Dallas-Fort Worth yesterday completing its longest leg of the 2013 Across America mission and setting a new absolute world distance record in solar aviation (832 NM/ 1'541 km).

Balance is key to making quantum-dot solar cells work

There has been great interest in recent years in using tiny particles called quantum dots to produce low-cost, easily manufactured, stable photovoltaic cells. But, so far, the creation of such cells has been limited by the fact that in practice, quantum dots are not as good at conducting an electric charge as they are in theory.

MIT develops power electronics from organic semiconductors

A group of scientists, directed by Prof Akinwande at MIT have fabricated the first high voltage field effect transistor using thin-film organic semiconductor technology.

Green conversion of heat to electricity

Soon, it will be possible to produce electricity from heat over 30 degrees emitted from a waste incinerator, refinery, or data processor. The start-up Osmoblue, based in the Swiss Institute of Technology EPFL's Laboratory of Microsystems has, confirmed the feasibility of this new concept.

Global marine electric vehicle market to reach $6.3bn in 2023

Virtually all autonomous underwater vehicles are electric for practical reasons - the internal combustion engine ICE is not a realistic option. Not so on the surface, where the ICE is the favoured means of propulsion. However, even here, there is now a strong move to hybrid and pure-electric drivetrains for many powerful reasons, so it is timely to look at marine electric vehicles in general.

Graphenano

A self-funded Spanish start-up producing large-sized CVD graphene and carbon nanofibre using home-made equipment. Graphenano was established in 2012 and developed its production technology with University of Castilla La Mancha. Their business model is to work directly with potential end users (e.g., composite or ceramic makers) to bring end products onto the market. They can produce 10 sqm/day of CVD graphene and 30 Kg per day of carbon nanofibre.

Angstron Materials

Dr Bor Jang founded the company in 2007 and prior to this he had started Nanotek Instruments in 2002. Dr Bor Jang is a well-known figure in the field of graphene and claims to be the first to file patents on the material. Angstron Materials produces graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide powdres. Angstron Materials currently has a 20 tonne per year production capacity (by powdre weight). Their production technique is based on oxidization-reduction. Indeed, they sell both graphene oxide and graphene powdres. Recently, they have started moving up the value chain and are developing silicon anode materials for Li-ion batteries. This is because, as Mr Beech puts it, no one is going to get rich from supplying graphene alone.

Engineers monitor heart health using paper-thin flexible 'skin'

Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has developed a heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill and no wider than a postage stamp.

Harvesting breakthroughs for cars

The collaboration Interactive Fully Electrical Vehicles IFEVS/Polimodel in the Turin region of Italy designs, develop and manufacture Micro EVs, car-like on-road vehicles that escape many of the vehicle-related costs of homologated cars such as crash testing and full car tax and insurance.

VDL and Solliance join forces to bring organic photovoltaics to market

VDL becomes a partner with Solliance for the development of a new, completely integrated roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing line for the research and pilot production of organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules.

Perpetuum Intelligent Power Module for Emerson/Rosemount 3051

Chemical Processing, a leading journal of technological advances in the chemical industry, recently surveyed the potential of energy harvesters to replace batteries in wireless sensor nodes from Emerson, a global leader in wireless industrial automation.

Boutique car manufacturer makes offer to buy Fisker

A boutique carmaker led by former General Motors Co executive Bob Lutz and China's largest auto parts supplier made an offer this month to buy cash-strapped "green" car company Fisker Automotive, reports Reuters citing unnamed sources familiar with the development.

Fuel cell produces electricity from road diesel

Swedish fuel cell developer PowerCell unveiled the first functioning full-scale prototype fuel cell system in the world which will produce electricity from road diesel aimed primarily at the transport and telecom markets.

Graphene - what next after the hype?

Graphene has already come a long way towards commercialisation, despite its short history. But really hard questions still remain about what comes next and how to grow revenues.

Student wins award for high speed capacitor

Eesha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, California, recognized the crucial need for energy-efficient storage devices.

Disputed sales of electric cars: the truth behind the confusion

How is it that some analysts put pure-electric car sales at hundreds of thousands in 2012 whereas others report a mere 60-65,000? At analysts IDTechEx, we feel that a lack of rigor is largely to blame because there are cars homologated as such and car-like vehicles that are not homologated as cars.