Energy Storage

A revolution is slicing through the car industry.

In 2025 over $25 billion will be spent on formulations and intermediate materials for wearable technology, as forecast by analysts IDTechEx in the brand new report Wearable Technology Materials 2015-2025.

Thermoelectric harvesting will be on production hybrid electric on-road vehicles from 2018. It will be commonplace on hybrids in 2020 and almost entirely to charge the battery, or increasingly supercapacitor or supercabattery used for power.

Load bearing structures that are also electronic or electrical are called structural electronics. This two-for-the-price-of-one approach can be more reliable, attractive and long-lived and it always saves space.

The market for hybrid and pure electric cars homologated as such is set to be $188 billion in 2025 according to IDTechEx analysis.

First was the significant investment from the materials community but now the equipment industry has turned its attention to printed electronics as a growth opportunity.

Electric and hybrid vehicles for construction, agriculture and mining will be a $30 billion market in 2025.

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies in this century.

Form factor is becoming a major driver shaping innovation and transforming the energy storage industry globally.

Electronics embedded within the structure of bridges, walkways, EVs, aircraft and more, have the potential to be a $60 billion market by 2025.