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Tesla’s current employment of over 300 veterans is just the beginning, according to recent reports. The acclaimed EV-manufacturer is apparently due to become “a leading employer of veterans”, according to the San Jose Mercury News — with over 600 veterans currently in the hiring pipeline. While providing good work for unemployed veterans is certainly something that can be commended, it

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So far, Mercedes has tread carefully into the world of electric vehicles, letting Tesla build the battery and drivetrain of its debut EV, the Mercedes B-Class Electric. But the German automaker is getting bolder with its next electric move. Mercedes has delivered eight Fuso Canter E-Cell trucks for testing in Portugal for the next year, offering a 60-mile range and

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24,227 Audi, BMW, Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz owners in the UK were asked in an online survey about their perspective on electric cars, and nearly 40% indicated they had some interest in buying one or would consider it. Their main condition was that an EV they would want would have to be able to go 300 miles on one charge. Tesla

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A number of prominent China-based solar energy companies saw their stock rise substantially on Monday (July 14), thanks to the World Trade Organization’s recent ruling against the US imposition of tariffs on Chinese solar modules, steel products, and other exports. According to the WTO, tariffs violate global trade rules — being inconsistent with obligations under the 1994 Marrakesh accord. Notably,

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Actions always have consequences — as the ripple effects of the US Department of Commerce’s recent move to close a loophole allowing Chinese-made solar modules to circumvent current anti-dumping duties are now showing. Thanks to the growing trade dispute between the US and China over this action, thin-film solar panel prices have risen to an 11-month high — spot prices

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Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the automaker’s latest sedan will be called the Model III when it goes on sale in 2017. Both cheaper and smaller than the Model S, the Tesla Model III (or the easier to read “Model 3″) is expected to come with a price tag of around $35,000. The much anticipated small Tesla sedan

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Texas Instruments today introduces the RF430F5978 microcontroller and accompanying evaluation module. Building on TI’s CC430 product family, the RF430F5978 MCU is a highly integrated RF solution with improved read zone and battery performance for ultra-low power applications. The RF430F5978 MCU includes a 3D low-frequency (LF) wake-up and transponder interface, an integrated 1GHz RF transceiver and programmable MSP430™ core. The LF

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Spare cell insertion is a well known technique to reduce the cost of functional fixes, limiting the changes to a few metal masks. Common practice is to tie to ground the spare cells’ input pins, reconnecting them later in the flow, as required by any functional ECOs. For illustration let’s take a NOR gate spare master which has 2 inputs

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Targeting ultra-low-power applications, Texas Instruments’ RF430F5978 microcontroller (MCU) features enhanced read zone and battery performance.  The device incorporates a 3D low-frequency (LF) wakeup and transponder interface that reduces power consumption by allowing shutdown of the RF radio and quick startup of the LF wakeup function, leading to longer battery life.  The 3D LF transponder, which can function without a battery

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The global market outlook for AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies is set for healthy expansion starting this year until at least 2018, with revenue during these four years projected to grow by $3.5 billion, according to a new report from IHS Technology. Market revenue will expand to $25.1 billion in 2018, up from $21.6 billion in 2014. The hefty four-year

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