Tag: battery industry

Kia Motors America (KMA) is kicking off the implementation of a robust charging network in advance of the Soul EV going on sale in California during the third quarter of this year. With Kia’s addition of 17 new dc fast chargers to California’s already-existing network of 198, charger availability will be increased nearly nine percent statewide by year-end. KMA’s EV

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NEC Energy Solutions, Inc. has been awarded a contract to supply a 2.5MW, 3.9MWh GSS™ to one of the largest electric utilities in the United States. As a key part of a distributed energy storage integration program, the GSS, or Grid Storage Solution, will be used to support analysis of the value streams that energy storage can provide to utilities,

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TSI Semiconductors, Inc. has completed its spin-off of TSI’s Products Division. The new independent company, TF Semiconductor Solutions, Inc. (TF Semi), will focus on the power management market where its 750V high-voltage process has already won designs with domestic and international customers. TF Semi will focus on LED drivers, LVDS interface devices, and JTAG system testing solutions and other power

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Renesas Electronics Europe today announced its new RX111 motor control kits. These inverter reference solution kits are designed to drive any 3-phase permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM), also called brushless ac motors. The RX111 inverter kits enable engineers to save time by eliminating the need to tune their motor parameters and evaluate the best tuning algorithm coefficients. As a result,

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Stackpole’s RNV Series uses proprietary manufacturing processes and materials to provide a robust product that has excellent electrical performance under prolonged high-temperature and high-humidity stress. It can withstand 1000 hours at 40 degrees C, at least 90% relative humidity with cycled power on for 1.5 hours, off for 0.5. The RNV Series has a working voltage rating up to 1600Vdc

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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today announced two new series of 0.5 to 1.5A class Schottky Barrier Diodes (SBD): the S30 series (30V type) and S40 series (40V type). With options available in a compact 1.0×0.6 mm package size, the new SBDs are well-suited to smart phones and tablet PCs. They also function as highly-efficient circuits for wireless power

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To increase its offerings in the 12V voltage range of wireless power transmitter coils, Wurth Electronics developed two new coils. Those coils comply with the Qi standard of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). The 760308104113 (A13), as a single coil, and 760308104119 (A19), as a two coil array, give the customers the advantage to increase the active wireless power transfer

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Batteries are the mainstay of backup power systems and require regular testing to ensure their reliability. The new Fluke® 500 Series Battery Analyzers simplify the workflow of testing stationary batteries and battery banks through an intuitive user interface that provides quick, guided test setups ensuring technicians are capturing the correct data while visual and audio feedback cues reduce the risk

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PowerGate, recently acquired by Sager Electronics, announced the release of the new single-output Mean Well 5,000 Watt RST-5000 series of power supplies with wide range 3-phase ac input and outputs of 24-Vdc or 48-Vdc that are highly trimmable from 20-120% of rated voltage and 20-100% of rated current for extreme flexibility. The RST-5000 exploits a new generation circuit topology achieving

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Lapis Semiconductor, a ROHM Group Company, has announced the development of a low-power microcontroller that integrates an 8-bit MCU core, speech synthesis circuit, high-efficiency Class D speaker amplifier (3.0V: 0.45W, 5.0V: 1.0W), non-volatile memory, and oscillator circuit on a single chip, making audio playback possible by simply connecting to a speaker. The ML610Q304 also provides hardware-based audio playback operation that

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