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With an EPA-rated range of 265 miles per charge, the Tesla Model S is the longest-range electric car you can buy today. In an interview with AutoExpress, though, Elon Musk revealed that a 500-mile battery will be possible “soon” … but at an exceedingly high cost. When asked “How far will a battery-powered car be able to go?,” Musk had

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The Department of Commerce has again found for the petitioner, SolarWorld, in its Chinese solar module trade case. This afternoon’s preliminary decision imposes significant tariffs on Chinese solar modules in the anti-dumping portion of this case. Today’s decision also closes what SolarWorld called a “loophole” that allowed Chinese module manufacturers to use Taiwanese cells in their modules and circumvent U.S.

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No need to hammer home the Popeye parallel, so let’s get right down to it: there’s a new reason to love spinach. And this new reason is related to the old reason – why your mother insisted you eat it. Like all leafy greens, spinach is very good for you. Beyond that, the vegetable’s intense green is evidence that it

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Construction has commenced on what will be the largest single rooftop solar photovoltaic PV project in Australia, with the installation of a 990kWp system at the IKEA Tempe store in New South Wales. The system, which is being installed by Kingspan Energy, will be the largest of IKEA’s Australian PV projects – comprising nearly 4,000 Yingli polycrystalline modules and 43

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US renewable energy and solar specialist Recurrent Energy says up to 2,500MW of utility-scale solar could be built in Australia by 2020 if the renewable energy target is kept as is. Recurrent Energy says utility scale solar PV will be cost competitive with wind energy within a few years – as others such as Bloomberg New Energy Finance have pointed

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Avago Technologies has introduced a gate drive optocoupler device that integrates a flyback controller for DC-DC converters and fail-safe IGBT diagnostics. The device’s 2.5A rail-to-rail output makes it suitable for driving IGBTs and power MOSFETs in industrial power inverters and motor drives. “By integrating the flyback controller, the ACPL-302J allows fewer discrete components and small high-efficiency transformer to be placed

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The functional materials for supercapacitors market will reach $5bn before 2025, so predicts IDTechEx Research’s report, Functional Materials for Supercapacitors / Ultracapacitors / EDLC 2015-2025. The most critical and costly components of a supercapacitor are the active electrodes, electrolyte and then separator. As solid state supercapacitors in the laboratory have no separator, then the structure and chemistry of electrodes/electrolytes are

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Spansion is sampling its S6AP412A series of multi-channel DC-to-DC power management ICs (PMICs) and expects to have production volumes available in September starting at $3.60 in volumes of 1,500 units. The S6AP412A series — an expansion of the Spansion MB39C031 family of DC-to-DC buck-converter, programmable PMICs — supplies three channels of power on a single chip to cutting-edge system-on-chip (SoC)

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ON Semiconductor Corp. has announced a new Lithium-ion battery protection controller for smartphones and tablets. The highly-integrated LC05111CMT utilizes analog circuit technology, MOSFET technology, and advanced packaging expertise to incorporate controller and driver functions in a single circuit. The LC05111CMT enables high-precision current control without using a current detection resistor. This current control reduces charging time by enabling higher charging

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A highlight of the Sanken Electric Co. Ltd. booth was the demonstration of the new normally-off GaN transistor and gate driver IC built into a single package. The initial offering consists of two products, the DGF6020 rated for 600V and 20A with an on-resistance of 50 milliOhms and the DGF6010 rated for 600V and 10A with an on-resistance of 100

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