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TactoTek and Structural Electronics
This article concerns TactoTek in Oulu Finland and how its technologies can scale up and create billion dollar businesses.
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Highlights from the Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV) 2018
Key areas discussed and displayed at the LCV event include the battery, powertrain, lightweighting, autonomous driving and electric vehicle charging, from not only the technology but also business model and policy perspectives.
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Massless Energy: Structure Becomes Lighter
This is a technological megatrend. Dumb load-bearing metal structures move to plastic and composite and incorporate energy harvesting and storage material - massless energy. Indeed you could call some of it negative mass energy. Goodbye components-in-a-box.
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Advancements in emerging conductive materials
In April 2018, IDTechEx gave a presentation at the world copper conference in Santiago Chile. This was part of work carried out for the International Copper Association to benchmark the commercial status of emerging conductive material. The presentation delivered can be seen below.
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Graphene to cool EV engines: FlexeGraph
The founder of Flexegraph shares information on their nano enhanced fluids and how they function to benefit closed loop cooling systems.
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Airborne Wind Energy 2018 Survey Results and Forecast
AWE should be seen as part of a bigger picture. The next generation of zero emission electricity producing technologies has no huge steel and concrete infrastructure, so it can have much less cost and installation time and making it redeployable.
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Analysis of off-the-shelf drones: sizes, prices, battery size, etc.
The drone market has boomed in recent years. This is essentially because easy-to-use, reliable and small-sized flying machines have become available at highly accessible prices- well in the range of consumer electronic products. This has created its own demand amongst customers and professional.
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Redefining the 'end-of-life' of retired electric vehicle batteries
Consumer batteries such as those used in power tools, mobile phones and laptops are normally recycled/disposed after their service life - that's what we normally refer to as the 'end-of-life' of the batteries. However, retired car batteries that are no longer suitable for electric cars could still hold sufficient capacity for second life applications. The 'end-of-life' of an electric car battery needs to be redefined as they could be further used, for example, for another 10 years or even longer in various post-vehicle applications before they are finally recycled/disposed.