Research Articles

Thermoelectric harvesting will be on production hybrid electric on-road vehicles from 2018. It will be commonplace on hybrids in 2020 and almost entirely to charge the battery, or increasingly supercapacitor or supercabattery used for power.

Simple things are being applied to reduce purchase price, increase resale price and extend range of electric cars

3D printing has come of age; the total market surpassed $1bn in revenues during 2012 and growth is expected to continue throughout all target sectors to reach $20bn by 2025.

The progress of virtual reality headsets.

IDTechEx report from the Protein event.

Load bearing structures that are also electronic or electrical are called structural electronics. This two-for-the-price-of-one approach can be more reliable, attractive and long-lived and it always saves space.

Structural electronics is one of the most important developments this century yet most people have never heard of it.

2014 has been an eventful year for the graphene industry.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 16 December discussing emerging technologies and materials for 3D printing.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Monday 15 December discussing electric vehicles trends and opportunities.

This two yearly event again had about 400 delegates. Once again it provided a forum for the huge number of European and global EV related organisations with overlapping agendas. Of the hundreds of millions of dollars they spend each year, too much goes on soft topics such as consumer attitudes to car models that will not be with us for long or how cars may form a meaningful part of a smart grid over ten years from now.