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A 200 mph Houston-Dallas bullet train is being planned by a private company called Texas Central Railway. The company’s CEO is Richard Lawless, who lived in Tokyo when he was a C.I.A officer in the 1980s and rode the Shinkansen bullet train. This train covers about 300 miles between Tokyo and Osaka averaging well over 100 mph for each trip.

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One of the world’s biggest solar manufacturers and project developers, the US-based First Solar, has predicted that utility-scale solar costs in Australia will halve over the next five years, becoming cheaper than wind energy by 2020. First Solar says this should mean that large-scale solar takes up an increasing amount of the capacity required to be built under the current

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The co-author of this article is Lutz Rauscher from Bosch Sensortec. Up until shortly before publishing this blog was entitled “Trends in MEMS orientation sensor form factor reduction.” That was until we ran the draft past a colleague for proof reading, and in her feedback she summarised: “So, what you are really questioning is does size matter, and if so

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Semiconductor products for the automotive industry accounted for almost half of Infineon’s entire sales. With €510 million, this segment contributed 46% to the sales volume of €1.11 billion and 41% to the total segment result of €170 million. While Automotive continues to be the strongest segment for the chipmaker, sales and profit in the company’s Industrial Power Control (IPC) segment

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Researchers from the Fraunhofer IISB institute for integrated systems and components therefore adopted a different approach: Within the project ‘Energy Campus Nuremberg’ they developed a system that allows charging the vehicle from the front side rather than from the bottom. The vehicle drives up to the charging coil, and since it can virtually close the gap in touching the charging

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The researchers, working at various U.S. Department of Energy light source facilities as well as at Cambridge and Stony Brook universities, chose ruthenium oxide (RuO2) as a model system to study these so-called ‘conversion materials, named because they undergo large structural changes when reacting with lithium ions, reversibly forming metal nanoparticles and salts (here Ru and Li2O). The reactions are

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Confirming a leadership position in the automotive market, today Texas Instruments announces that more than 15 million of TI’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) System-on-Chip (SoC) devices are on the road. TI’s open and flexible solutions are in series production in over 25 OEMs and over 100 car models, and are designed to help reduce the number of road collisions

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Electronic Design Europe: Previously, silicon MEMS timing products could not compete with quartz’s low jitter performance for applications such as telecommunications. Has the jitter performance of silicon MEMS improved? Rami Kanama: For telecom and networking applications, the jitter performance needed improvement from both the MEMS and the controlling ASIC. The ASIC that Discera had was good, but we can improve

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Schaefer, Inc. has announced the TEC-100 and TEC-200 Series of isolated dc-dc converters that provide 100W and 200W of continuous power that feature high efficiency (up to 93%) and -60 to +125 degrees C operating temperature range. These units are especially designed for heavy industrial applications and harshest environment conditions. The TEC Series provides both 2:1 and 4:1 wide dc

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BMW of North America has launched its BMW i DC Fast Chargers which can charge the BMW i3 all-electric vehicle’s battery up to 80 percent in 30 minutes. A joint-development between BMW and Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, BMW i DC Fast Chargers will change the face of public charging as the first compact and affordable DC Combo fast charger. BMW

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