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Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), met with Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of BMW at BMW Group headquarters in Munich to announce the planned expansion of their existing cooperation initiated in December last year.

At end of November, IDTechEx held the world's largest printed electronics and photovoltaics conference and tradeshow in Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This show brought together more than 1300 attendees from 28 countries. Players active across the entire value chain were present; covering the full range from research organisations to end-users, and from small start-ups to multi-billion internationals.

Less than two weeks remain until the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage conference and exhibition and already exhibitors are prepared to demonstrate their capabilities and technology advances, and not just on paper. This year more than ever, the exhibition floor will be full of demonstrators, prototypes and products that incorporate energy harvesting, showcasing in the most vivid way the maturity level of the technology and the variety of possi...

Heliatek GmbH has won the Materials Award at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics EUROPE 2012 in Berlin. This is the latest in a succession of awards for Heliatek's innovative organic solar film technology that promises to deliver a lighter, greener and more versatile alternative to traditional solar panels.

Having witnessed the tremendous growth of the solar industry in the past few years, along with all the dramatic events that went with it (consolidation, production capacity growth, efficiency increases, profit margins decreases, competition from thin film technologies, incentives established and withdrawn...), it's hard to map out what exactly can make a new entrant to the sector a successful photovoltaic company.

Today there are multiple devices available for harnessing solar energy. Each device offers a different set of characteristics. Wafer-based devices consist of mono or polycrystalline and are the most mature technology due to the experience borrowed from the microelectronics industry. They also offer very competitive production costs (Organic Photovoltaics: Technologies, Markets & Players 2012-2022 www.IDTechEx.com/OPV).

PowerGenix, a developer and manufacturer of Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) batteries is entering a joint venture with China City Construction Corporation (CCCC), one of the largest infrastructure investment and development companies in China. In the near term, the JV will develop, manufacture and sell advanced batteries for the automotive market and other markets, including markets supporting grid-scale applications.

The converter to change AC to the necessary DC to charge an electric vehicle typically wastes 5-10% of power, whether it is located in the vehicle or in the charging station. It is not exactly green to add inductive charging which wastes a further 5-20% but very attractive operationally because the driver stays safe and clean in the vehicle. This inductive charging brings principle of the electric toothbrush to the car and about 30 companies are ...

BAE Systems and Caterpillar Inc. have signed a long-term supply agreement to collaborate on an energy efficient parallel hybrid propulsion system for heavy-duty trucks. Under the 20-year agreement, BAE Systems will integrate the Cat CX family of transmissions into its HybriDrive parallel propulsion system, and will establish an aftermarket field services model leveraging Caterpillar's vast global service network to support the growing installed b...

Opening speaker at Electric Vehicles Land Sea Air USA 2012 in San Jose California March 27-28, Raghu Das of leading analysts IDTechEx says, Unlike other events, we delight in slaying the myth that most of the market value is in cars. Only our events and publications reflect the market split over the next ten years where cars will be important but well under 50% of the market value and the part where most participants go to the wall and there is m...