Tech innovations and Startups

Rinnovabili • Tesla Emergency Drive Away: How the new safety feature works
Mobility & Transportation
Tesla introduces emergency escape feature that lets drivers leave with charging cable attached

Tesla's new Emergency Drive Away feature allows drivers to escape dangerous situations at Superchargers without unplugging, but using it could cause thousands of dollars in damage.

Rinnovabili • direct-seawater-electrolysis-new-membranes
Water
Goodbye purified water: New membranes bring…

German researchers have developed new membranes designed to produce green hydrogen directly…

Rinnovabili • DeposAI could help cities tackle traffic congestion before it gets worseitphotos
Mobility & Transportation
AI could help cities tackle traffic…

Researchers are combining artificial intelligence, geospatial mapping and clustering techniques to predict…


Rinnovabili • solar cells
Energy
Photovoltaic: Self-cleaning solar cells thanks to leek

A group of scientists in Finland has developed a transparent, superhydrophobic film inspired by the leaves…

Rinnovabili • Solar pv tracker
Energy
Solar pv tracker, a digital twin trains tracking algorithms

In Germany, the research project "DeepTrack" studies how to optimize the tracking of photovoltaic trailers thanks…

Rinnovabili • Salt Thermal batteries
Tech innovations and Startups
Salt Thermal batteries for heating and cooling buildings

Researchers at Georgia Tech tested a combination of two easily available salts to store clean energy…

Rinnovabili • heat pump
Environment
Why are heat pumps sales falling?

EHPA data show for 2023 a 6.5% decline in European heat pump sales, first decline after…

Rinnovabili • Floating Wind Walls
Tech innovations and Startups
WCS Floating Wind Walls Get First Ok

The 40 MW Windcatcher unit has obtained the approval of principle from DNV, making an important…

Rinnovabili • lithium-ion battery
Energy
Here’s the elastic lithium-ion battery that stretches 5,000%

A team of researchers from Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications has developed a polymer electrolyte…

Rinnovabili • photovoltaic cooling
Mobility & Transportation
Towards a sustainable cold chain: photovoltaic cooling

Sunswap collaborated with MAN Truck & Bus for the first test drive of its fully electric…

Rinnovabili • Solid-State electrolyte
Tech innovations and Startups
A new Solid-State electrolyte for Lithium Metal Batteries

Test porous crystalline polymers as solid electrolytes for metal lithium batteries. These composite materials show high…

Rinnovabili • Decarbonize heating
Real Estate
Decarbonize heating: the 7 technologies that New York will apply

A year of time to develop solutions to decarbonize heating applicable to existing plants without the…

Rinnovabili • solar cell
Tech innovations and Startups
Photovoltaic: from Sweden the solar cell with integrated thermal storage

The cell is combined with a molecular solar thermal energy storage system that cools the unit…

Rinnovabili • Energy from ocean waves
Water
Energy from ocean waves: Mega PTO Wave is not afraid of failures

The Institute of Mechanical Intelligence of the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa participates in the European project.…

Rinnovabili • Quality of life
Real Estate
Quality of life: only the best management of data becomes a smart…

Being a smart city means knowing how to transform a huge flow of data collected into…