Monday, 31 January 2011
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Electric Vehicles land sea and air
This event provides a platform for:
- electric vehicle manufacturers to diversify and make vehicles for many uses
- components and subsystems suppliers to make their products available for as many vehicles as possible - land, sea and air
- electricity suppliers, regulators, analysts and investment experts to assess the whole market while others miss most of these aspects
- research efforts, challenges and future breakthroughs to be covered
- The global picture of the whole electric vehicles market
- EV batteries and associated technologies
- Energy harvesting and energy storage for electric vehicles
- What's happening in East Asia
- Electric vehicles, markets and opportunities
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Automotive Plastics India Conference 29th April, 2011, The Lalit , Mumbai, India
The Indian Industry, especially the automotive sector, which is an enormous user of bulk materials, would like a halfway house of reasonably long-lived materials that degrade back into the environment when they are no longer needed. Reinforced plastics based on natural, mainly plant-derived substances show promise of providing this and may turn out to be one of the material revolutions of this century. The automotive industry is in the driving seat of ‘green’ composites because it is here that the need is greatest. Faced with pressures to produce fuel-efficient, low-polluting vehicles, the industry has used fibre reinforced plastic composites to make its products lighter. Therefore we need to have more innovations in use of plastics. Use of thermoplastics offers some relief, as these resins can be thermally recycled to produce new products.
The development and use of engineering plastic and the application of plastic in automobile industry will play a crucial role in extending the scope of plastic from being used in the interior components to being used in the manufacture of the, car-body or structural components of the automobile.
Full information @ http://www.evhub.biz/autoplasticsindia
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Printed Electronics - Predictions for 2011
Printed Electronics - Predictions for 2011
Cambridge, UK
Printed Electronics - Predictions for 2011
By Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx www.IDTechEx.com
In this article, we examine what to expect for 2011. To do that, we must understand the spectacular successes of the recent past as well as the failures. This has often been an industry with poor business planning and marketing. For example, in e-readers, Plastic Logic belatedly realised it could not meet Apple and Amazon head on and it said it would create a professional sector but such a niche may never exist. It failed to launch a product anyway. Those developing printed organic and inorganic flexible solar cells, most of which had life of no more than five years, obsessed about replacing power stations by meeting "grid parity" efficiency when the potential lay in consumer goods, military, healthcare and media.
Lessons from failure
Frequently, participants tried to run before they could walk or at least chose objectives that were too ambitious for the level of investment available. For example, Microemissive Displays, OLED-T and many other Organic Light Emitting Display companies are no more. Those making printed antennas and keyboards prospered.
Some have simply failed to meet the price- performance points necessary for market entry. For example, no one has taken a meaningful order for the long promised printed organic transistors, despite transistors being the engine of most electronics. That has had a severe knock on effect. For example, the printed organic memory of Thin Film Electronics AB and many printed sensors cannot fulfil their primary market potential without them.