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According to Lux Research, Panasonic is currently the runaway leader in the nascent battery market for EVs, but LG Chem has the potential to overtake it in what will be a $30bn market in 2020.

Tracking the development of 45 electric vehicle categories (not just electric cars), IDTechEx research indicates that there are now Li-ion battery options for everything from forklifts and mobility vehicles to e-bikes. Indeed, almost all the e-bikes in the West and Japan use them. 8,000 forklifts in the USA have fuel cells with Li-ion batteries though the Toyota Mirai fuel cell car and the Prius hybrid car still use NiMH.

According to Health & Safety Executive (HSE) statistics, falls from height were the most common cause of fatalities, accounting for nearly three in ten (29%) fatal injuries to workers in 2013 to 2014. In total, there were 5952 fatal, major or over seven day RIDDOR reportable accidents reported during this same time period as a result of working from height.

Slovenian motor component manufacturer Hidria is set to dominate the global electric hybrid drive market after a stand-out deal at CWIEME Berlin 2015.

Dr-Ing. Martin Doppelbauer, Professor for HEVs at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), will use his seminar at CWIEME Berlin to reveal three alternative electric motor designs together with their test results.“It’s all about power density,” said Dr. Doppelbauer. “If we can develop motors for EVs with the same or higher power and torque at a smaller size and weight, then we can significantly reduce engine cost.&rdqu...

By Franco Gonzalez, Senior Research Analyst, IDTechEx. The days of car companies controlling the future of the automotive industry are numbered. Indeed, waves of creative destruction and globalisation are shaking the industry. All incumbent companies established and new, are either resisting or acting, sometimes both!

Once upon a time, the simple glass of the car windshield began to incorporate printed antennas and heaters.Fast forward to 2015, and the world's first car with a 3D printed load-bearing structure and body is the Strati, developed by US startup Local Motors. In 2014, the company undertook a challenge to build a 3D car live on the internet. In late 2015, the first street legal versions are expected to be delivered to customers.

According to a recent report from IDTechEx, 'Hybrid and Pure Electric Cars 2014-2024: Technologies, Markets, Forecasts', those making or intending to make electric cars or their components have big strategy decisions ahead. The report also indicates that these decisions must be made in the context of all car-like vehicles, whether homologated as cars or as something else.

The UK’s first two megawatt (MW) lithium titanate battery is to be connected to the grid later this year, as part of new research to tackle the challenges of industrial-scale energy storage. The project – led by the University of Sheffield and – aims to test the technological and economic challenges of using large scale batteries to provide support to the grid.

Scaleo chip and IFPEN have announced “FlexHybrid powered by OLEA”, the first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) driven by OLEA microcontrollers. Scaleo chip has recently introduced OLEA, its new family of powertrain microcontrollers embedding two unique technologies surpassing the current market solutions: AMEC (Advanced Motor Events Control) and SILant (Safety Integrity LeveL agent) technologies provides unprecedented hardware fl...