The newly established Edison Motor Cars, a partnership between Sunvault Energy, the Edison Power Company and Delaware Corporation, has declared a highly ambitious first project: an electric car powered by graphene-based hydrogen fuel cell that will allegedly perform better than a Ferrari.

The car, to be named Edison Electron One, is meant to be unveiled in 2016 and equipped with an electric drive unit at each wheel, providing the vehicle with 1,355 Newton meters of torque (which is almost double that of a Ferrari 488 GTB and one third more than that of the Tesla P85D). The car will also be able to accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in about two seconds and recharge in five minutes.

The University of Manchester has released an artist’s impression of how the next £60m phase of the Graphene Valley will look. The Graphene Engineering Innovation Center will be a research and development facility focusing on the practical applications of graphene and other 2D materials.

The GEIC will be one of several buildings in Manchester dedicated to graphene and 2D material research, alongside the £61m National Graphene Institute, which opened earlier this year, and the £235m Sir Henry Royce Institute for Materials Research and Innovation, set to be built within the University of Manchester’s Oxford Road campus. The GEIC scheme is set to complete in 2017.

Update: The Fall 2015 European edition of the event has been postponed. The Graphene-Info team will instead attend the Cambridge Graphene Technology Days 2015. If you wish to schedule a meeting with us, contact us here.

The Graphene-Info team is excited to announce its attendance in the Graphene World Summit on November 04-06 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. The 2^nd Annual World Summit will encompass the entire range of activities, including researching, developing, producing, financing and investing in graphene and the commercialization of graphene-enabled applications. The conference features global leaders who are working toward driving the broader use of graphene enabled technologies.

Graphene was recently at the heart of artistic designs for the warships of the future. British Naval architects and engineers were tasked by the Royal Navy and Ministry of Defense to imagine how the future fleet might look, in a challenge issued by Startpoint, a procurement group that brings together experts in naval defense from government, military and industry to provide advanced technology against a backdrop of tightening budgets.

Graphene was suggested as a means to increase the strength of ships, as well coating hulls to reduce drag, meaning they could sail faster and use less fuel. Among other features thought up for the ships are drone carrying sensors to replace conventional masts, to be connected to the ship by a tether made from cryogenically-cooled carbon nanotubes which would transmit power to aircraft’s motors and also energy weapons such as lasers.