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GE’s Critical Power business today announced the availability of its new GDT080 GigaDLynx* digital point-of-load (POL) module, providing board designers a unit claiming industry-leading output current levels in a significantly reduced footprint compared to previous alternatives. GigaDLynx is the newest addition to GE’s family of DLynx digital POL modules. GE’s new POL module substantially reduces the board area required by

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Automobile traffic produces air pollution, chokes cities, and wastes time. Mass transit is one of the best options for change. Many of us would ride mass transit if it was readily available. But I think many more would be inclined to ride if the metro offered internet access. Extra Wi-Fi time instead of the stasis of looking at traffic lights

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One of the country’s top “green” automotive manufacturers — GreenTech Automotive — recently celebrated the grand opening of its newest production facility in Tunica, Mississippi, as per recent reports. The opening of the new manufacturing facility means that GreenTech Automotive now possesses a full-scale plant capable of producing large numbers of the company’s upcoming two-seat Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV), the

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We’ve been keeping tabs on the plasmonics scene for a while and we just got wind of an interesting new development from the Netherlands in partnership with Caltech. If the Netherlands connection doesn’t exactly ring your bells, recall that Caltech is the institutional home of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is heavily invested in the related field of photonics. As

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In Asia, motorcycles with engine displacement under 250 cubic centimetres are a means of mass transportation and at the same time a mass market. Currently, many machines are still fitted with carburetors. Here Bosch believes its technology offers a decisive advantage: compared with the mechanically controlled carburetor, and depending on situation, the electronically controlled fuel-injection system can reduce fuel consumption

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This article is part of the ‘Think Further’ series, sponsored by Fred Alger Management, Inc. For more ‘Think Further’ content and videos, visit thinkfurtheralger.com. We’ve been all over MIT researcher Donald Sadoway’s new “dirt cheap” liquid metal battery ever since it was a glimmer in his eye, so when Sadoway’s name came up in the context of a sponsored series

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A prominent Toyota representative recently made the comment that the main reason that Toyota isn’t developing any wide-release battery-electric vehicles is that no one wants one. And that’s why the company is pushing ahead with its hydrogen fuel cell technology. Wait, what? So, no one is asking for a Toyota BEV? And are there really that many people asking for

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Engineers working on the 2016 Chevy Volt have used data collected from customers to design a follow-up to the best-selling plug-in car in America, and GM has detailed the first of those drivetrain improvements. Among the improvements is a lighter battery with more storage capacity, the result of a joint effort between supplier LG Chem and GM, which share a

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The Nissan LEAF has just set a new electric car sales record, yet again — this time for the most US electric vehicles sold in the period of a single calendar year. The new record eclipses the one set in 2013 — also by the Nissan LEAF — of 22,610 units sold. Given that there are still two months left

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In between the Scottish mainland and the Orkney Islands lies the Pentland Firth, a turbulent sound with tides that can reach up to a startling 18 miles per hour. That’s a lot of untapped power. MeyGen is taking advantage of all that renewable energy with the installation of the world’s largest tidal power plant, and if everything goes as expected,

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