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BYD recently unveiled what is soon to be the world’s largest battery-electric vehicle at the 2014 American Public Transportation expo in Houston, Texas. This biggest-ever EV has been tentatively dubbed “The Lancaster” — in honor of the Californian city where it was created. To be clear here — so that you’re not imagining some sort of battle tank or something

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The Ford Focus Electric 2015 edition is getting a significant price cut of about $6000, down to $29,995, according to recent reports — thus finally putting it on competitive terms with the market leader, the Nissan LEAF. Given that the EV version of the the Focus debuted at $39,995 four years ago, the recent price cut is pretty significant —

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Travel adapter and mobile phone charger designs are facing more and more challenges such as technical, cost, size, and reliability requirements. A good design should have very low no-load power dissipation, less BOM cost, and tight constant voltage/current tolerance. The primary-side regulation technique is promising way to achieve low cost and less BOM count. There was, however, wide belief than

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Murata invites visitors to Electronica to come to their stand, B5 – 107, and view the latest innovations in component technology. With the theme of “Shaping the world through innovation”, all the demonstrations and new products will be based on a variety of concepts suitable for use in automotive, consumer, healthcare, industrial, security and energy applications. Recommended: Infineon Syndicates €1.55

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Analog Devices, Inc. will share innovative solutions in series of focused demonstrations at Electronica 2014 from 11-14 November at their Analog to Anywhere Technology Pavilion in Hall A4, Booth 159. ADI will spotlight a diverse portfolio of solutions that deliver performance and expertise to help customers anticipate and solve their toughest design challenges. These solutions will help customers capitalize on

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AEG Power Solutions announces the addition of two new Sales Vice-Presidents, Hans Van Nikkelen Kuijper, and John Ferriman. Van Nikkelen Kuijper and Ferriman have highly experienced senior profiles and are considered expert in the power electronics business. Hans Van Nikkelen Kuijper is a seasoned sales professional and manager having been in various management positions including CEO and General Manager with

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Microsemi Corporation today introduced its new reverse power feed (RPF) technology, a critical technology for FTTdp and G.fast deployments. G.fast, the new xDSL standard for 1gbps over copper, has a maximum expected range of 250 meters (m). In order to achieve the highest data rates with G.fast, shorter loop lengths are required which leads to the need for fiber to

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Shanghai Trannergy Power Electronics Co. Ltd. has launched a new line of three-phase inverters (TRB Series) from 4- to 9-kW. These inverters are compactly designed at only about 0.05 cubic meters and 24 kg. These inverters have a maximum efficiency of 98.1% and they use a film capacitor design to assure long operating lifetimes. The fanless cooling design is low

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Future Facilities Ltd. today announced a significant update to 6SigmaET, the company’s powerful, intuitive and easy-to-learn thermal simulation tool for use by designers of electronic components and products. Release 9 of 6SigmaET integrates a new CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) solver that can radically speed up thermal simulation, as well as introducing a number of enhancements to the tool’s functionality and

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Eaton Corp. announced new management capabilities for data centers and colocation facilities with its best-in-class ePDU® third-generation (G3) platform in the Americas, featuring one percent revenue-grade power monitoring for enhanced accuracy and efficiency through its ePDU G3 managed models. Providing the ability to measure energy consumption and control power at the outlet level, Eaton’s robust platform combines all the benefits

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