Research Articles

IDTechEx Chairman Dr Peter Harrop gives his view on the recent announcement from the UK National Grid that peak impact of electric cars in the UK will be equivalent to capacity of 6 nuclear plants.

Cars are so yesterday. By contrast, the demand for buses will power on up, with no peaking for decades.

Mobile robotics in material handling and logistics will become a $75bn market by 2027. It will then more than double by 2038. These staggering headline figures mask turbulent transformative change underneath: some technologies will rise and transform the fortunes of industries, fuelling growth rates far outpacing recent trends, whilst others will face with decay and obsolescence. We are at the beginning of the beginning of a transformative change, and the time to plan is now.

IDTechEx is hosting a free webinar 'New Technologies for Metal 3D Printing' on Tuesday 8 August.

Energy Independent Electric Vehicles (EIVs) are the end game and IDTechEx will be showcasing the opportunities at their next event.

In IDTechEx Research's report 3D Bioprinting 2017 - 2027: Technologies, Markets, Forecasts, we predict that the regenerative medicine market has the potential to be the largest application for 3D bioprinting, and that the replacement of damaged and failing organs by 3D bioprinting is not limited to science fiction after all. But how far away is this future?

It is easy to look at an industry like composites and quickly dismiss it as slow-moving and of no real interest to you or your company, but the chances are you would be wrong.

The new IDTechEx Research report, Last Mile Electric Vehicles 2018-2028 concerns goods and people reaching final destination such as down the pathway past the guard dog or riding from the train station.

IDTechEx is hosting a free webinar on opportunities for LPWAN technologies on Thursday 3 August.

Dr Richard Collins et al. discuss composites and their uses in drones and enabling internet infrastructure.

Flexible consumer electronic devices are now a reality, and as forecasted by IDTechEx in the launch of the first ever market research report on the topic of barrier films for electronics almost ten years ago, innovation in encapsulation was one of the critical requirements that needed to be met in order to realize commercially viable consumer products.

Volvo Cars has been in the news recently in relation to their announcement this Wednesday on their decision to leave the internal combustion engine only based automotive industry. But is this move really a revolutionary one?