IAA-review: from the last gasp of the combustion engine to solid-state batteries!
BYD Seal 6 Touring station wagon with extended range extender concept
(Mit freundlicher Genehmigung/Courtesy of BYD Company Ltd. [Homepage])
Now that the dust has settled somewhat after the IAA trade fair, it is time to report on topics that received somewhat less attention amid the flurry of activity at the IAA.
The topic of “range extenders” attracted a lot of attention. Even the German Chancellor is now familiar with this term and is calling for the EU ban on combustion engines, which is due to come into force in 2035, to be lifted. Mr. Merz hopes that this will give the German automotive industry more time to switch to electric drives. …[more]
Welcome to our website on electromobility.
With our portal, we would like to accompany the electric revolution on the road and in the air, offer exciting articles on companies, illuminate backgrounds, and explain connections.
One focus is on index pages for electric cars and aircraft, providing brief descriptions of all the major start-ups and traditional OEMs from A to Z.
Onboard technologies such as cells and battery systems form the technological basis of the electric revolution, and we also offer a wealth of information on this topic. Here, too, there is an A-Z index listing all major players in cell and battery technologies.
Charging electric cars is of central importance for the success of the electric revolution. On our pages on Offboard Technologies, we will soon be presenting charging technologies, their manufacturers and operators of charge systems.
Our central A-Z index will be used to look up startups and brands.
More current articles from 2025 ...
Since Volocopter was acquired and integrated into the Chinese Wangfeng Group as a sister company of Diamond Aircraft, we haven’t heard much from the German multicopter pioneer.
Now there is news from Bruchsal: Volocopter is planning to enter the Private and Business Aviation market. This segment covers all air traffic outside of regular scheduled flights, i.e.…[more]
VoloXPro full-scale prototype
(Mit freundlicher Genehmigung/Courtesy of Volocopter GmbH [LinkedIn])
The recent news that the US company Lyten will take over almost all of the sites of the insolvent Swedish cell start-up Northvolt came as a surprise. This was surprising because Northvolt and Lyten had previously been targeting completely different markets with different technologies:
While Northvolt wanted to serve the high-volume automotive market with its NMC cells, the US start-up has so far only addressed niche markets such as aviation with its particularly lightweight and innovative graphene-sulfur cells … [more]
Cell chemistry of Lyten
(Mit freundlicher Genehmigung/Courtesy of Lyten Inc. [Homepage])
Over 100 companies took part in this year’s Advanced Automotive Battery Conference Europe (#AABC2025). Below we present six companies that particularly caught our attention in presentations, during tours of the trade fair or in conversation with other conference visitors.
They include four start-ups, an oldie with over 360 years of company history and a Swedish company that was not even present at the conference, but was somehow always there as the “elephant in the room”… [more]
Traditional pilot training still takes place primarily in the air. During training flights, the student pilot is accompanied by a flight instructor who can intervene in the flight controls from the second pilot’s seat.
Training eVTOL pilots in this way is not possible: as the electric vertical take-off aircraft only have a single pilot’s seat, flight training must primarily take place on the simulator.
The German start-up FAST from Berlin offers a solution to this problem: It is developing a so-called mixed reality eVTOL flight simulator, in which the motion platform and the side stick for flight control are realized using hardware components and the cockpit with the display systems is realized virtually in VR goggles.
This concept makes it possible to build flight simulators for the various eVTOL types (multicopter, wing-based eVTOL, etc.) with uniform standard hardware, which significantly reduces complexity and costs.
Mixed reality eVTOL flight simulator from FASTFAST
(Mit freundlicher Genehmigung/Courtesy of Future Aviation Simulation Technologies GmbH [Homepage])
This year’s Advanced Automotive Battery Conference #AABC2025, which took place from June 24-26 in Mainz, again focused on trends and innovations for automotive-grade lithium-ion batteries.
The conference is aimed at an international audience of experts, and this year I was able to attend in person and on site for the first time. The wealth of topics and the expertise of the participants was very impressive… [more]
Reaction of the established!
It is the perfect storm: established vehicle manufacturer are being hit by the disruption triggered by electromobility at a time when they have already been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic… [more]
Be curious: car, airplane and tech start-ups from A to Z ...
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Flight Jetson-ONE over dune landscape
(Mit freundlicher Genehmigung/Courtesy of Jetson AB [Homepage])
Read all about the electric revolution in aviation here … [more]