Infineon Technologies AG announced two shields for the Arduino design community. The shields target two important applications: RGB lighting and motor control. Both Shields are compatible to Arduino Uno R3 and can be combined with the XMC1100 Boot Kit which is equipped with a 32-bit microcontroller of the XMC1000family. All XMC1000 products use the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor. The Infineon RGB
As if displaced desert tortoises, burned birds and political theater around the loan guarantee program weren’t enough problems for the Ivanpah concentrating solar project, the owners are now dealing with lower-than-expected electricity production. From January to August of this year, the 392-megawatt plant generated far less than the electricity expected. For some, it’s yet more proof of the technical limitations
Hawaii is already a real-world test bed for the challenges of bringing high penetrations of rooftop solar onto its island power grids. Now Hawaiian Electric Co., the state’s main utility, is joining forces with SolarCity to try out a tool that could help manage its solar-impacted electricity networks: smart inverters. Last month, the two announced they’re going to Golden, Colo.
The invested capital will be used to accelerate the commercialization of Californoa-based Seeo’s ultra-high energy density advanced lithium polymer batteries. Earlier investors Khosla Ventures and GSR Ventures also participated in the financing round. “We appreciate the confidence Samsung Ventures has expressed in our technology and team with this investment,” said Hal Zarem, President and CEO of Seeo. “Samsung Ventures is
Not so very long after Chevy announced that its hybrid Volts had driven over one billion miles, Nissan came out with a similar notice, but it is about one billion kilometers driven by LEAFs. (Approximately 180 million kilograms of CO₂ emissions were not generated by driving the electric LEAFs, compared to gas-powered cars.) One billion miles is much farther than
If you like SUVs and plug-in hybrids, you might be pleased to hear that Volvo will soon come out with a 7-passenger vehicle of that type for the US market. The all-electric range will be about 25 miles, which is not bad for such a large vehicle. Currently, the launch date for it is Spring 2015, and would make it
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has previously made her goal to have at least one million electric vehicles on the country’s roads by 2020 quite clear, but these goals are unlikely to be met without new incentives, based on recent comments that she made at a press conference in Berlin. Putting it relatively bluntly, Merkel stated it thusly: “There’s a lot
Of all cars sold in the first three quarters of 2014 in the Netherlands, 4.3% were electric or hybrid cars. In the last quarter of 2013, the number was even higher: 15%. The main reason for these very high EV sales in the Netherlands is fiscal measures, says Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, who published the figures. The Netherlands does not
An ARENA-funded solar research team at the University of New South Wales has recorded the highest efficiency for a PV system ever reported, converting over 40 per cent of sunlight into electricity, with an innovative take on Australian-designed solar tower technology. The team achieved 40.1 per cent efficiency in outdoor testing in Sydney in late October, using a solar ‘Power
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today announced a new vPolyTan™ series of surface-mount polymer tantalum molded chip capacitors in five compact case sizes. Optimized for computer, telecom, and industrial applications, Vishay Polytech T55 series devices feature ultra-low ESR down to 30 mΩ at +25 degrees C and 100 kHz. Recommended: Hybrid ENergY Storage Capacitors offer High Density and Low Profiles The low