Electric vehicles

IDTechEx forecasts the power electronics market to exceed US$65 billion by 2036, with EVs and data center power electronics taking up significant market share. Across the power electronics industry, the commercialization of wide bandgap semiconductors SiC and GaN enable increased efficiency and power density. The demands of the EV, data center, and renewables industries differ significantly, resulting in different rates of technological innovation across the power electronics landscape. By understanding how different power electronics applications relate to each other, IDTechEx offers a unique, cross-application insight into the power electronics industry as a whole.

As economies worldwide are growing exponentially, there is increasing pressure on many of the major sectors to keep up with global trends. This article covers the need for new thermal management technologies alongside the growing demand for vehicle electrification high performance computing.

As the off-highway industries of construction, agriculture, and mining begin to see greater electrification of machines, battery technologies will be critical to their performance and overall market adoption. This article highlights how the performance demands of machines can be understood in order to match them with the best-fitting battery technology.

With in-mold electronics (IME) company, Kronos Mechatronics, having won the LOPEC 2026 Startup Award for Best Business Potential, the hype for printed electronic technologies can continue to flourish. This article covers IDTechEx's visit to LOPEC 2026 in Munich, exploring the use of IME within automotives.

Ion exchange membrane materials are electrically conductive materials responsible for the selective transportation of ions, and are necessary for applications including green hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells, and carbon capture. This article covers IDTechEx's research into the growing market and some of the main applications for ion exchange membranes.

IDTechEx analyst Daniel Parr discusses the outlook for materials in EV batteries.

China and the EU are currently leading the way for second-life (2L) electric vehicle (EV) battery application, but a collaboration between AI infrastructure company Crusoe and battery recycler and repurposer Redwood hints at shifting tides, and a potential new global frontrunner emerging.

IDTechEx's new report "Batteries for Construction, Agriculture, & Mining Machines 2026-2036: Technologies, Players, Forecasts" provides a deep-dive into the fast-growing markets for electric machinery in the off-highway industries of construction, agriculture, and mining. This includes critical insights into battery requirements for the diverse range of machines, which technologies can meet these requirements, detailed supply chain analysis, and granular 10-year forecasts which outline the growth of off-highway battery demand to reach 45 GWh by 2036.

Higher rates of critical material recovery are crucial to insulating supply chains from the introduction of export controls on highly geographically localised primary mineral sources. In this article, IDTechEx presents the valuable lessons that can be learned from the success of the platinum group metals recovery market.

Lithium-ion cells are the fundamental technology underlying electrification in the automotive sector. The materials market for lithium-ion cells is broad and rapidly growing. This article explores cell material trends in EV batteries, and the material demand expected from commercialization of next-generation cell technologies.