219 worked with DuPont to develop a custom-designed drone built with advanced technology.

The GMC HUMMER EV will be revealed on May 20, 2020 and built in Michigan at General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant.

IDTechEx analysts attended CES 2020 in Las Vegas on 7-10th Jan 2020. The Consumer Electronics Show, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, is the largest electronics event in the world. CES 2020 has attracted over 170,000 in attendance during the four days.

This year Solaris is going to showcase a new addition to its electric bus segment on offer. This will be the low-entry Solaris Urbino 15 LE electric. The tri-axle bus is built mainly with customers of the Scandinavian market in mind.

Equinor has signed an agreement with Eidesvik Offshore for the modification of the Viking Energy supply vessel, to make it capable of covering long distances fuelled by carbon-free ammonia. The vessel will transport supplies to installations on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Nissan and Uber have signed a deal to support the introduction of 2,000 all-electric Nissan LEAFs for drivers who use the Uber app.

A joint team flew to Cameroon in December to trial the use of drones, sensor technologies and deployment techniques to monitor populations of the Critically Endangered Kordofan giraffe at Bénoué National Park.

One of the largest gas network companies in the UK has partnered with a world-leading robotics company to transform the most costly and disruptive job in the industry - excavation.

For the first time ever a consumer water sports mobility device will be 75% additively manufactured with serial-produced, custom 3D-printed parts.

Electric vehicles by land, water and air are rapidly arriving and rapidly being misunderstood. Motors last forever? No. We now push motors so hard they wear out, increasing sales.

Advanced Automotive Battery Conference Europe was a 5-day event held in Wiesbaden, Germany on the 12th-16th January. The conference was dedicated to the entire supply chain of Li-ion batteries and their application in the electric vehicles sector.

Amazon India announced that its fleet of delivery vehicles in the country will include 10,000 electric vehicles by 2025. This commitment comes after successful pilots across different cities in 2019; learnings from which have helped the company create scalable and long term EV variants to build this large fleet.

Sono Motors has successfully completed the extension of its campaign to finance the company and has exceeded its target of 50 million euros.

TactoTek and fischer automotive announced that they have collaborated on a smart surface technology demonstrator to show examples of design innovation that fulfill market demands for integrating styling, electronic functions and manufacturability of smart surfaces at commercial scale.

With its broad range of thermoplastic elastomers and specific focus on the trends and challenges of electromobility, KRAIBURG TPE is in a good position to support OEMs and system suppliers in advancing decisive innovations in this fast-growing market segment.

There is dramatic change in some industries, with leading printed electronics vendors moving quickly to capitalize on the new sought after capabilities. These opportunities will be addressed at the Printed Electronics Europe exhibition and conference in Berlin on 13 - 14 May (register by 23 January to save 40%).

Daimler Trucks is taking the next logical step in the electrification of trucks with the battery-electric low-floor truck Mercedes-Benz eEconic. Customer testing of the eEconic for municipal use will begin in 2021.

Finalists for the venerable R&D 100 Awards have been announced by R&D World magazine and its new parent company, WTWH Media, LLC.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles confirmed that it is in discussions with Foxconn regarding the potential creation of an equal joint venture to develop and manufacture in China new generation battery electric vehicles.