VENTURE BEAT - Some futurists have predicted that self-driving technology will usher in a true cultural shift. Moreover, it has been forecasted that by 2030, the self-driving car market may reach a staggering $87 billion, according to Lux Research.
METRO MAGAZINE - According to Lux Research, batteries for transportation and grid storage are expected to surpass consumer electronics by next year and electric buses are cited as a primary market driver for this growing battery segment.
CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS - Dayton Horvath, an industry analyst who has reported on digitalization for Lux Research, sees ample hype in current discussions of IT in the chemicals sector.
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE - Although 4G/LTE's reach continues expanding, there are places it may never reach, such as deserts and the sea. "There are two options when there isn't infrastructure in place," says Russ Rivin, IIoT senior analyst at Lux Research, an independent research and advisory firm.
CLEAN TECHNICA - Innovation interest in renewable energy tech has been declining in recent years, achieving a peak around 4 years ago, according to a recent analysis from Lux Research.
LOS ANGELES TIMES - “I see it as something that’s really only going to be an interesting product for those who have disposable income and want to buy something that looks and feels and tastes right and solves what I call ‘First World problems’ like the humane treatment of animals,” said Sara Olson.
ENERGY STORAGE NEWS -Back in 2015, as GE entered the energy storage market for the first time, one analyst at Lux Research told Energy-Storage.News that the giant company’s involvement was indicative of the growing appeal of a rapidly maturing industry and technology set.
THE MOTLEY FOOL - Updated legislation for autonomous vehicles was unanimously passed by the House, and a similar bill is being drafted in the Senate. The first national law regulating self-driving cars would put many more of them on the roads in the very near future.
PLASTICS TODAY - Lux compared and contrasted different corporations’ innovation activity within diesel, looking at the key parties implicated in the dieselgate scandal—Volkswagen and Bosch. When Lux analyzed the innovation activity of these companies within diesel, it saw a telling trend: Diesel innovation activity at VW and Bosch appears to have declined by more than 50% between 2001 and 2015.
3D PRINTING INDUSTRY - Despite its decades long history, selective laser sintering (SLS) continues to have undeveloped potential to form high quality production parts that are difficult to make using other 3D printing methods.
UTILITY DIVE - “Companies like Alevo and Aquion struggle to gain market traction,” as large li-ion manufacturing continue to drive down costs, said Lux Research analyst Chris Robinson.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES - “I’m starting to see more pieces and events happening that show that Brazil is doing this to build and beef up their already large ethanol industry,” said Yuan-Sheng Yu, an analyst with the research firm Lux Research.
REUTERS - Analysts say high-tensile steel and aluminum will be the more popular alternative for many years to come, considering parts makers would need to overhaul production lines and figure out ways to fasten new materials like cellulose nanofiber onto other car parts.
AUTOMOTIVE WORLD - Plug-in vehicles are approaching a tipping point for mass-market adoption in the 2035-2040 timeframe, but several milestones must be reached before then, writes Yuan-Sheng Yu, Senior Analyst, Energy Transition at Lux Research.
CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS - A report last year from Lux suggests that investors see a future for energy harvesting. According to the report, energy-harvesting devices attracted more than $100 million in funding in 2006–15.
NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY NEWS - Oil giant BP is looking to partner with electric vehicle (EV) makers to offer battery charging docks at its worldwide network of gasoline and diesel stations.
SOLAR POWER WORLD - “Continued PV adoption provides great opportunity for market growth and innovation, which we’re already seeing with India emerging as a leader,” said Tyler Ogden, Lux Research analyst and lead author of the report.
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR - “There really aren’t competing technologies that are ready for the commercial marketplace,” said Chris Robinson, a Lux Research analyst focused on energy storage.
CXO TODAY - “There is no one-size-fits-all solution in the cold chain monitoring space & companies can implement different solutions on a case-by-case basis, depending on the value of the cargo and loss rates,” says Tiffany Huang, Lux Research Associate & lead author of the report: “Keeping It Fresh: Improving Cold Chain Outcomes with Sensor Platforms.”
ENERGY MANAGER TODAY - Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries will continue to dominate the stationary energy storage sector, Lux Research said in March. But in April, preliminary research from the University of California Irvine seemed to indicate that power-to-gas storage could out-perform lithium-ion battery storage.
THE MOTLEY FOOL - The prospect of roads dominated by self-driving cars may transform historical rent-a-car models, but two of the biggest rental companies got a boost recently from unlikely services.
GREEN CAR CONGRESS - Based on its analysis of government responses to the Volkswagen diesel scandal as well as to the ongoing publication of research highlighting the adverse effects of NOx and particulate matter on public health, Lux Research has concluded that the question is when—not if—a diesel ban will happen.
CNBC - As CNBC reported in February, data from Lux Research shows that, on average, consumers are willing to pay 11 percent more for each added layer of convenience in their food chain, from online grocery shopping to having dinner delivered.
REUTERS - “The big question for these kind of investment projects is whether this tax advantage will last long enough,” said Arij van Berkel, a biofuels specialist at Lux Research.
FORBES - Sensors will measure temperature, traffic patterns, foot traffic, air quality and infrastructure integrity (e.g., is the bridge safe?), among many other things. Lux Research, an innovation research and advisory firm, has a report that suggests the world will deploy 1 trillion sensors by 2020.
AP - “We really haven’t seen non-Chinese companies get into this super-technology market,” said Chris Robinson, who follows the industry for Lux Research.
GREENTECH MEDIA - Mark Bunger, VP of research at Lux Research, said: “There are, as of now, no credible analyses of the systemic impact of these (still hypothetical) vehicles on cities or traffic, or the environment as a whole.”
ZDNET -While the Predix platform did receive some criticism from research firm Lux Research, which said the platform had yet to live up to its potential and faced stiff competition from the likes of Cisco's Jasper, C3 IoT, and Aeris, GE Digital CEO Bill Ruh told ZDNet last year that the Predix developer community, as well as its customers and partners, serve as "proof points" of its success.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES - “The reason they were importing such a large amount from the U.S. is because their own production just can’t compete, and it’s largely due to corn prices,” said Yuan-Sheng Yu, a senior analyst at Lux Research.
FIERCE ELECTRONICS - Noa Ghersin, an analyst for Lux Research, outlined the transitioning of consumer-based healthcare wearables to reliable medical devices. Ms. Ghersin comprehensively explained and demonstrated the accuracy shortcomings of commercially-available devices like the Fitbit wearables.
PV MAGAZINE - A new report by Lux Research finds that First Solar and Solar Frontier are holding onto a corner of the market, if not posing much of a threat to c-Si dominance.
E&P Magazine - While one expert points to rising electric vehicle and ‘transportation-as-a-service’ in the U.S. as a possible death knell for the Alberta oil sands, others say, not so fast.
LOS ANGELES TIMES - Tesla’s high-design solar roofs are moving a step closer to a housetop near you. Tesla Inc. is accepting orders for its electricity-generating roofs, with a Wednesday afternoon kickoff.
PLASTICS TODAY - Market research company Lux Research, which has employed a framework to assess startups and incumbents throughout the world, rating their business execution and technical value using various metrics, and thereby classifying them by their perceived potential.
FINANCIAL POST - Boston-based Lux Research published a report that estimated Canada's carbon tax plans could generate $120 billion in tax revenues by 2030.
NPR - The growth of the organic produce industry is one factor giving biopesticides a boost. So, too, are regulatory hurdles, says Sara Olson, a senior analyst at Lux Research.
CIVIL EATS - When Lux Research looked into the Monsanto-Bayer merger in December, they surmised that gene editing was an important part of Monsanto’s appeal to Bayer, but that it was by no means the only technology they’re banking on.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - At that point you’re back to counting on the strength of the glass or whatever material is used to make the original display screen, says Anthony Schiavo, an analyst with technology research firm Lux Research who specializes in advanced materials.
HEALTH LINE - According to Lux Research, the demand for alternative proteins will double by 2024. That means the global supply chain will need to keep up with the growing demand.
NEWSWEEK - "Initial sales of the S8 may appear slow compared to what was typical for previous model releases," said Lux Research analyst Christopher Robinson. "In other words, smaller initial sales spike."
GREENTECH MEDIA - Tim Grejtak, energy storage analyst at Lux Research, pointed out that Trimet’s concept was not the same as a true molten battery, such as the liquid metal design being pursued by Ambri.
UTILITY DIVE - Fire safety concerns have not been a limiting factor in other jurisdictions, said Christopher Robinson, who heads energy storage research at Lux Research. But New York City’s population density makes it more of a concern there.
SOLAR MAGAZINE - “Australia is one of the strongest markets for solar-plus storage projects at the moment,” explained Tyler Ogden, who leads solar energy research at Lux Research.
CIO - Flow batteries will almost always be more expensive than Li-ion systems on an installation basis, but on a per-kilowatt-hour basis (i.e., how long they can run, depending on how large the electrolyte fluid tanks are) they can be cheaper, according to Lux Research.
FORBES - Much has been made of the potential impact of Trump’s policies on CO2 emissions. The frequently quoted Lux Research analysis of Clinton and Trump policies projected a difference well under a billion metric tons in 2025.
PV MAGAZINE - In a new study titled Future Costs of Stationary Energy Storage: Evaluating Li-ion and Flow Battery Cost Reductions and Application Fit, the authors at Lux Research have found that for stationary storage systems Li-ion technology will enjoy the sharpest cost reductions chiefly because of the economies of scale afforded by the EV industry.
WAREABLE - "A lot of companies are trying to create their own in-house hydration sensor, which is a very challenging thing to do," says Tom Dawidczyk, an analyst who leads the wearables research at Lux Research.
QUARTZ - Cosmin Laslau, an analyst with Lux Research, scoffed at the high Udacity estimate. “Given how early-stage these efforts are, a frantic, money-is-no-object approach seems to be pervasive, which could indeed lead to some very high numb
HART ENERGY - Encompassing the above-discussed criteria, Lux Research developed a methodology to score the use cases on scales of one to five using two comprehensive metrics: value and suitability.
GREENTECH MEDIA - Despite the No. 1 spot for supercapacitors in the survey, both Attwood and Chris Robinson, a consultant at Lux Research, were skeptical that the technology will have an outsized impact on the future of storage.
BLOOMBERG -Bitcoin rose to an all-time high as investors looked to hedge against potential global uncertainty related to policies of President Donald Trump and speculated that his administration will relax regulations governing the digital currency.
CIO - Tyler Ogden, a solar analyst at Lux Research, said Rayton Solar is developing "a flashy technology, merging two of the hottest applications of physics – particle acceleration and photovoltaic generation – but with dubious prospects."
FORTUNE - “Mojave is the Silicon Valley of space exploration,” says Mark Bünger, who follows the sector at Lux Research. Mojave isn’t alone, as galactic entrepreneurship is also burgeoning in Seattle, Tucson, and Silicon Valley itself.
CNBC - Lux’s research shows that, on average, consumers are willing to pay 11 percent more for each added layer of convenience in the food chain in anything from online grocery delivery to restaurant take-out.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - Advanced biofuels will nearly double in five years — from 59 billion gallons per year in 2016 to 67.2 billion gallons per year in 2022 .
BRAINXCHANGE - This adoption problem is not unique to Upright and plagues most wearable devices. One way to achieve sustained adoption may require offering virtual rewards or introducing a gamification.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER- Biofuels will be key to achieving the aviation industry’s pledge to cut CO2 emissions to 0.2 billion tons (GT) in 2050 — half the 2005 figure — as opposed to the 2.1 GT projected by current growth rates, according to Lux Research.
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY - San Francisco-based Otto, acquired last year by Uber, is one of several companies now testing driverless 18-wheeler trucks on U.S. highways.
THE BLADE - “There’s a bit of a fear factor here,” says Kyle Landry, an analyst at Lux Research. “The high volume of drones, plus regulations that can’t quite keep pace, equals a need for personal counter-drone technology.”
FORTUNE - Now the synbio manufacturers have to achieve what many biofuel startups could not: transferring what works in a lab to large-scale commercial operations. “Production can be fickle and can be hard to control in a vat the size of a bus,” says Mark Bünger, who follows the sector at Lux Research.
CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS - The opportunistic acquisition makes sense because of the companies’ existing relationship and proximity in the Boston-area, Lux Research analyst Victor Oh says. “It really just accelerated the inevitable by bringing that gene synthesis capability in-house to accelerate product development and project timelines.”
CIO DIVE - "Manufacturing is seeing huge returns from IoT," said Isaac Brown, analyst with Boston-based Lux Research. "Both from improving operations [within factories] and from producing and selling IoT-enabled products."
COMPUTER WORLD - The researchers predicted that 378.1 GW of new solar and wind generating capacity will be installed globally over the next five years, requiring a massive amount of energy storage.
BLOOMBERG - Robotic devices like lettuce thinners and grape-leaf pullers have replaced so many human hands on U.S. farms in recent years that many jobs now held by illegal workers may not exist by the time Donald Trump builds his promised wall.
RIGZONE - If confirmed as U.S. Secretary of State, former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson could play a role in deciding how cybersecurity policy impacts the oil and gas business, an industry analyst told Rigzone.
TECH TIMES - The expanding market of bio-based materials and chemicals markets has been mentioned by Lux Research's latest report. It said the trend is reflective of the drive for sustainability and quest for alternatives to petroleum feedstocks.
DESIGN NEWS - “For most families, it’s not a consideration yet," Chris Robinson, an analyst for Lux Research, Inc., told Design News. “The pure electric is still a second or third car for those who do buy it. It’s not a primary car yet.”
GREENTECH MEDIA - "Panasonic took this really risky bet with Tesla that’s gotten them to No. 1," said Cosmin Laslau, senior analyst at Lux Research, in an interview with GTM in 2015.
PETROLEUM REVIEW- The oil field of the future will be highly automated with remote drill rigs potentially run by robots rather than roughnecks, according to the latest report* by Lux
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CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS - Even after President Trump takes office, DOE is not likely to cancel the second phase of the grant program for successful awardees, says Victor Oh, an analyst at Lux Research.
DESIGN NEWS - The popular notion that millions of retired electric car batteries will one day be reused to store residential power may not be true, a new study says.
FORTUNE - A boom in consumer drone sales has spawned a counter-industry of start-ups aiming to stop drones flying where they shouldn’t, by disabling them or knocking them out of the sky.
REUTERS - “There’s a bit of a fear factor here,” says Kyle Landry, an analyst at Lux Research. “The high volume of drones, plus regulations that can’t quite keep pace, equals a need for personal counter-drone technology.”
