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The Chinese government may spend as much as $16 billion to fuel the growth of electric vehicles and development of charging stations. More state funding could help automakers tamp down concerns over the price, reliability and convenience of their electric vehicles, according to Reuters. It may be good news for Tesla Motors, which has targeted China for a major role

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Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today launched the new C2000™ Delfino™ 32-bit F2837xS microcontrollers (MCUs). These single-core MCUs are the first in the industry to offer four 16-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), enabling precision feedback in power control applications. They are pin- and software-compatible with the recently introduced dual-core C2000 Delfino F2837xD MCUs and help expedite development when scaling from higher performance

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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today expanded its microBUCK® family of integrated synchronous buck regulators with a new 3 A device offering a fixed 650 kHz switching frequency and a wide input voltage range of 4.5 V to 15 V. The Vishay Siliconix SiP12116 combines high-side and low-side n-channel MOSFETs with current-mode, constant on-time (CM-COT) control in the space-saving 3 mm by

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Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTM4634, a triple output step-down µModule® (micromodule) regulator in a 15mm x 15mm x 5.01mm BGA package with integrated heat sink. The thermally-efficient package enables the LTM4634 to deliver full current on all three outputs (5A, 5A, and 4A), more than 70W of output power at 65 degrees C ambient with 200LFM airflow. Combined with

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Yesterday, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced a worldwide voluntary recall and replacement program in cooperation with various government regulatory agencies, for affected ac power cords distributed worldwide with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers, as well as with ac adapters provided with accessories such as docking stations, sold from September 2010 through June 2012. This recall affects 5.6 million

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The EL9718E-M1 electronic load from Intepro Systems Ltd has been developed specifically to meet high-voltage applications and offers the same wide range of easy to use features found across Intepro’s EL97 series of electronic loads. The EL9718E-M1 is suited to be used in a host of different test environments on a wide range of products in any industrial environment, including;

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Siemens, manufacturer of the VersiCharge EV home charging system, and Sunrun, a leading solar PV system installer, are now partnering to help promote the products of the two companies, as per a recent agreement. The new deal will be offering owners of the Siemens VersiCharge EV home charger a $500 Visa gift card if they install one of Sunrun’s home

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Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. has announced the development and commercialization of a wireless string monitoring system for industrial solar power plants. This is a system for measuring and monitoring the status of power generation in each string, and is configured by a management unit, which is the base unit, and string sensor units, which are terminal units. The management units

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NetPower Technologies, Inc. announces the release of the 100A NHT1 POL converters. NHT1 is specified for input voltages of 8V- to 14V-Vdc and supplies core voltages to power demanding microprocessors and other digital IC’s. It has 8-Bit VID control compliant to VR10 and VR11. This high performance converter achieves 89% efficiency with an output of 1.6Vdc at 100A, fast transient

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Chinese government’s efforts to promote electric and hybrid vehicles is started to pay off as production of these vehicles saw a huge surge during the first seven months of this year. According to recently released data by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, production of electric and hybrid vehicles rose 280% during January through July 2014 over the

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