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Worldwide
22 Dec 2016
Satellite or drone internet?
Beaming the internet to the 4.5 billion people that do not have it should be massively profitable.
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Sweden
21 Dec 2016
Breakthrough Huddig hybrid wheel loader in 2018
For light duty there are small wheel loaders and even small excavators that are pure electric. Now many manufacturers are developing or offering wheel loaders or excavators that are hybrid electric including Komatsu, Volvo and Caterpillar. Care is needed however, because this industry sometimes uses the word hybrid to mean a non-electric hybrid of hydraulic and diesel drive.
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Worldwide
20 Dec 2016
Silent city
It started with Julius Caesar banning vehicles from rattling along the cobbles after 8pm so people could get to sleep. Things went backwards in the ensuing two thousand years but now it is coming center stage again.
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United Kingdom
19 Dec 2016
Electric industrial lawn mower evolution
The Textron division in the UK Ransome Jacobsen in the UK makes industrial lawnmowers based on diesel engines and lead acid batteries that are sometimes primitive hybrids in having a separate lead acid battery pack for the powertrain.
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Worldwide
16 Dec 2016
Electric motors for electric vehicles: $400 billion confusion
What do golf cars and heavy electric trucks have in common? There is still no agreement on the best type of electric motor to use in either of them. On IDTechEx analysis, the booming, confusing traction motor business will rise to around $400b in 2027.
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15 Dec 2016
Electric vehicles in construction are the future
The industrial and commercial sector is the largest part of the electric vehicle value market and that will continue to be the case according to analysis in the unique IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles 2017-2027.
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15 Dec 2016
The aerogel market has finally come of age
IDTechEx research analysis has shown that this industry, which is almost a century in the making, is finally coming of age. Major players are finding more nascent applications and new entries are progressing out of semi-commercial prototypes and into full market launches.
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Worldwide
13 Dec 2016
Electricity supply and electric vehicles reinvented
IDTechEx expects EVs to create significant electricity demand in about ten years and be key to huge improvements in local noise and air pollution and in global warming reduction.
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France
12 Dec 2016
The growing demand for low cost environmental sensors in smart cities
Last week Paris experienced its worst spike in pollution since records began. Cars were banned from the streets and public transport made free in the city and surrounding areas. Such vehicle bans have only been introduced four times in the last two decades, and never before on consecutive days.
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Worldwide
09 Dec 2016
EVs go all-wheel drive
Jaguar Land Rover wants half its cars to be available in an electric version by the end of the decade, after showcasing its first electric car at the Los Angeles Auto Show earlier this month.
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United Kingdom
09 Dec 2016
Solar floating airport with smart city
Dick Wallis, CEO of Positioning Systems in the UK has sent IDTechEx a visionary proposal for a new combined airport, smart city and green electricity supply in Wales in the UK.
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United States
06 Dec 2016
Inside Levi's Stadium: where entertainment meets technology
While in Santa Clara for the IDTechEx Show, technology analyst Dr David Pugh met with staff at Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers. The 68,500 capacity stadium was opened in 2014 and is one of the most technologically enabled entertainment venues in the world.