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Akkodis — Battery Swapping for Electric Vehicles

Akkodis are an engineering service provider with over 50,000 employees and an annual turnover of ~€4 billion. Akkodis presented their battery swapping solution to IDTechEx at ABTS in Berlin, which uses a 4.1 kWh module weighing 18kg that can use various cell chemistries and formats depending on the application.

Komatsu: Electrification of Construction Machines

Komatsu is a global leader in the supply of construction equipment. It has recently begun its electrification transition and this profile explores its current offerings and strategy.

Webinar - Thermal Management Opportunities in 2023 and Beyond

Wednesday 15 November 2023 - Electric vehicles: Battery strategies; Battery thermal interface materials; Direct oil cooling electric motors; Power electronics and adoption of wide bandgap semiconductors; Fire protection materials. Data centers: Increasing design power; Liquid cooling thermal management strategies; Industrial collaborations and opportunities for players

Tonly

Tonly is a manufacturer of dump trucks for the mining industry, founded in 2005 and based in Xianyang, China.

Fluor: Carbon Capture

Fluor Corporation is an American multinational engineering and construction firm headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a holding company that provides services through its subsidiaries in the following areas: oil and gas, industrial and infrastructure, government, and power. IDTechEx Analysts Eve Pope and Chingis Idrissov caught up with Fluor at the Carbon Capture Technology Expo Europe 2023.

FUTURUS

Founded in 2016 in Beijing, China, FUTURUS has become an interesting player in the heads-up display (HUD) market that is specializing in built-in thin film transistor (TFT) based windshields and augmented reality (AR) HUDs using light field displays (LFDs).

BarkCloth Europe

BarkCloth Europe produces various materials that derive from tree bark and other sustainable plant-based materials, including leather alternatives, and operates in Germany and Uganda. IDTechEx spoke to Oliver Heintz, the CEO and Co-founder of BarkCloth Europe, about their alternative leathers.

Randaemon

Randaemon is developing a true random number generator based on beta-decay. The company is developing proof of concept device hardware, as well as proprietary ciphers, for an on-chip solution to high-level data encryption. Senior Technology Analyst Dr Tess Skyrme interviewed the CEO Janusz Borodzinski, VP of Business Development Krzysztof Appelt, and CTO Jan Kuba.

Service Robots - Our New and Efficient Coworkers

When picturing a robot, an intimidating human-like figure might come to mind, but what if they could help businesses gain maximum benefit from their unmatched efficiency and power? Service robots are technological marvels proving to possess the enhanced capabilities of human labor, with fantastic flexibility and unmatched power, while always looking smart.

Bright Renewables: Carbon Capture

Bright Renewables describes itself as a renewable gas technology company. Solutions offered include those for biogas upgrading and carbon capture. IDTechEx Technology Analyst Eve Pope caught up with Bright Renewables at the Carbon Capture Technology Expo Europe 2023.

WEVO-CHEMIE: Hydrogen & RFB Applications

WEVO-CHEMIE is a German specialty chemicals company founded in 1945, specializing in the manufacturing and supplying of polyurethane, epoxy and silicone resins for encapsulation, adhesive and sealing applications.

Join Our Upcoming Webinar - The Future of Automotive Radar

Thursday 2 November 2023 - The emerging demands on radar from developing autonomous vehicle technologies; What a 4D imaging radar is and why it is needed; What routes are available to create 4D imaging radar; How radar technologies and implementations are diverging; Who the leading suppliers in 4D imaging radar are

TMR Sensors: A Quantum Success Story

Tunneling magneto resistance sensors are rapidly disrupting the automotive and wearables industry. These tiny sensors leverage quantum phenomena to provide a performance edge over classical incumbents, including industry mainstays such as Hall effect sensors. Although they don't depend on the more exciting effects such as superposition and entanglement, in this article, IDTechEx highlights the lessons to be learned from the success of TMR sensors in the emerging quantum sensor market.

Electrified Thermal Solutions

Electrified Thermal Solutions (ETS) was founded in 2021 and is based in the US. The company offers a sensible thermal energy storage technology.

HUDWAY

Founded in 2013, HUDWAY are a heads-up display (HUD) manufacturing company based in California, USA. They specialize in delivering combiner-type aftermarket HUDs and sell these units directly to consumers in a D2C distribution model.

Graphene Market: IDTechEx Provides An Outlook for the Coming Decade

Graphene has long been seen as a "wonder material" and a solution to many of the world's challenges. The reality is very different as, unsurprisingly, the hype did not immediately translate into commercial success.

Join Our Upcoming Webinar on AI and the Wearable Technology Market

Wednesday 1 November 2023 - The state of the wearables market in 2023; Assessing the value proposition of combining AI with wearable data; Case studies across multiple form-factors - Smart watches - could AI unlock advanced medical monitoring applications?; Skin patches - is AI software the key to unlocking the consumer market for continuous glucose monitors?; Brain computer interfaces - will AI gift earphones with mind-reading powers? Outlook for the future: hype vs. reality

Gelion

Gelion are a UK/Australian company developing non-flow ZnBr and Li-S batteries.

Deep Branch

Deep Branch is a carbon dioxide fermentation company targeting the aquafeed and chicken feed markets. In September 2023, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Eve Pope spoke about the company with John Hays, Vice President of Commercial and Sales.

EV vs ICE Mini-Excavators: Power, Cost, Sensitivity to Energy Pricing

This premium article takes a comprehensive look at electric excavators and compares them against their diesel equivalents. Here IDTechEx considers motor power against engine power, break-out force capabilities, and energy consumption. IDTechEx analyzes the total cost of ownership of both machine types, electric and diesel, to find the time to break-even, where the fuel and maintenance savings outweigh the higher initial upfront cost caused by expensive batteries. Moreover, this article shows analysis on how break-even might be impacted by changing fuel and electricity prices, revealing which has the biggest impact on the electric machine's financial viability.