Tag: battery industry news

12
Jan

Underground Tesla Supercharger Station In London Is Strange… In A Good Way

Pictures of Tesla’s new underground Supercharger station in London recently came to my attention, and while I won’t say that I’m surprised by them (given Elon Musk’s flair for the dramatic/stylish/futuristic), they are more interesting than I would have guessed. Who would have thought that what is, essentially, just a gas station, could look so interesting. (Not necessarily a knock

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12
Jan

Renewable Energy Project Developers Flock To Indian State Of Telangana

Project developers are flocking to Telangana to take advantage of the power-deficient scenario prevalent in these states. Following the separation of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, the power generation assets were distributed between the present-day Andhra Pradesh and the newly created state of Telangana. This somehow worsened the power supply situation in the two states. Both are now competing to secure any

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12
Jan

Neah Power Systems Agrees to Acquire Shorai

Neah Power Systems, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to merge withShorai, Inc. This merger is expected to be immediately accretive with Shorai reporting over $4.0 million (unaudited) revenue in for the twelve months ended December 2014 and was cash flow positive for the fourth quarter of 2014. The combined organization, which will be called Neah Power Systems, will deliver

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10
Jan

PDU Ethernet Switch Combos Provide Power and Ethernet Ports in 1U

Tripp Lite has introduced a market first; network-grade PDUs with a built-in Gigabit Ethernet switch. These PDU Ethernet Switch Combos merge a PDU and unmanaged network switch into a single 1U device, saving IT managers valuable rack space. The NSU-G16 offers 8 outlets and 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports, while the NSU-G24C2 features 12 outlets and 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Both

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10
Jan

Development Platform for Battery-Free Wireless Sensors and Actuators

The Medusa development platform allows developers to design components driven by RF energy harvesting. The Medusa from Farsens S.L., San Sebastian, Spain is a development platform for UHF RFID battery-free devices. The Medusa includes an ANDY100 chip with EPC C1G2 communication and a MSPG2233IPW20 microcontroller from Texas Instruments for communication with developers’ circuits. Users can now develop their own wireless

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9
Jan

Australia’s First Citizen-Owned Solar Thermal Plant Campaign Raises $34,000

This is an update on a previous Solar Lovearticle about the Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia Inc. (CORENA). The organization has a campaign to raise $5 million dollars by having individual citizens make small donations in order to finance the construction of a community solar power system. If 50,000 people donated $100, they would reach their target. Considering that millions

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9
Jan

BMW i3 Profitable At 20,000/Year, Says Reverse Engineering Firm

BMW’s i3 electric car is profitable at just 20,000 units sold a year — according to the reverse-engineering firm Munro & Associates, which recently did just that, reverse engineered the i3. As per the firm’s opinion, BMW’s well-liked EV was “impressive” in a number of different regards — particularly the CFRP-utilizing “Life Module” body shell. The chief executive of the

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9
Jan

New Graphene Compound Could “Revolutionise” Clean Tech

If you’re thinking that the screamingly fast drop in oil prices will beat clean tech into the ground for the foreseeable future, guess again. This is not your father’s oil price cycle, and the next generation of transformative energy technology is already on the horizon. Case in point: graphene, the “nanomaterial of the new millennium.” In the latest development, researchers

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9
Jan

Why The Gorgeous Gogoro Electric Scooter Can’t Be Plugged In

It sounds like the work of a madman. An electric scooter that can’t be plugged in? What were they thinking! Well, the designers of the Gogoro were thinking that in order to make electric scooter ownership as easy as possible, they’d take plugging in out of the equation, and instead create a network of on-demand battery dealers. And it might

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9
Jan

Toyota Making 5,600 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Patents Free To Use

Toyota will be making more than 5,600 of its hydrogen fuel-cell technologies patents free to use for a large number of companies in the industry/sector — absolutely no charges, including no royalty payments — according to recent reports. Seemingly taking a move from Tesla’s recent playbook, the move is certainly an interesting one — but you can’t help but wonder

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