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The AAA announced its Automobile Club of Southern California Automotive Research Center chose the Tesla S P85 as its top-scoring green car pick this year. The Palo Alto-based automaker’s car is featured with more than 80 other green vehicles in the latest AAA Green Car Guide.  The top-scoring and best value green vehicles were revealed May 28 at the motor

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Liberty Electric Cars has built the first test mule of its electric light commercial vehicle project. Green Automotive Company (GAC) announced its European based subsidiary, Liberty Electric Cars, has successfully completed the build of the first fully functioning example of DELIVER. DELIVER is an electric delivery vehicle funded by the European Commissions’ 7th Framework Program which brings together ten partner

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The first wave of electric cars and plug-in hybrids has been largely centered on smaller vehicles, mostly from mass-market brands (Tesla excepted). Four years later, German luxury makers are entering the fray–and the plug-in cars and utility vehicles they sell will markedly expand the offerings on the market. We’ve now been able to tease out the company’s schedule for its first

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Aerodynamics are a vital component of automotive efficiency. The more air you have to push out of the way to reach or maintain a certain speed, the more energy you’re using. And the more energy you use, the less efficient your journey will be. Tesla Model S owners don’t need aero numbers to confirm their car’s efficiency, but it doesn’t

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“Turbo” was the word to have on your car in the 1980s. Preferably in huge, bright script, completely out of correlation with the car’s actual performance. Now, it’s more often used as an indication of efficiency–take Ford’s Ecoboost brand, for example. Audi has used them for many years on its gasoline and diesel models, and has now put its latest

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A new Code of Practice for Low Voltage Direct Current (LVDC) Power Distribution in Buildings will be published by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) next year. This Code of Practice, expected in early 2015, sets out the requirements for the design, specification, selection, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of LVDC power distribution in buildings, including LVDC supplies and

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Broadcom Corporation today introduced a new multi-standard smartphone power management unit (PMU) that drives Rezence™ technology into the mainstream while providing compatibility with existing deployed standards. When combined with Broadcom’s WICED™ (Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices) Smart family of SoCs and software for the charging pad, manufacturers can now build complete and broadly compatible end-to-end wireless charging solutions. Broadcom’s

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Amantys Ltd. announced the launch of a new IGBT gate driver operating at 3.3kV, 4.5kV and 6.5kV, with significantly improved reliability and protection in high power modules targeting the most demanding applications including wind turbines, locomotive, HVDC, and industrial drives. At these power levels the gate driver must provide reliable and effective protection mechanisms for a variety of fault conditions.

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Littelfuse, Inc. has introduced the SD and SD-C Series 450W Discrete Unidirectional and Bidirectional TVS Diodes, the latest additions to its line of TVS Diode Arrays (SPA® Diodes). Designed to protect against destructive electrostatic discharges (ESD) and lightning-induced surge currents, these fast-acting TVS Diodes are ideal for replacing multilayer varistors (MLVs) in low speed and DC applications because they can

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TDK Corporation today introduced the 60-A TDK-Lambda iJB series of Point of Load (PoL) dc-dc converters. Featuring intelligent auto-tuning technology, these converters provide better dynamic performance, improved system stability and extremely accurate current read-back. Operating from an 8 to 14Vdc input, the iJB series can provide output voltages of 0.6 to 2V, with a precision set point accuracy of 0.5%.

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