Tag: battery industry

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What has been dubbed by its manufacturer as being the “e-scooter for everyone” — the Terra Motors A2000 — was recently unveiled in Tokyo, Japan. The new A2000 e-scooter builds on the success and design of the company’s earlier A4000i model — and was developed with the intention of cracking the global scootermarket. Terra Motors has noted that, with the

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The enhanced new incarnation of The Future Build — a green building materials website used by developers, contractors, architects, etc — was officially relaunched recently by its developer, Masdar. The new website allows suppliers to market their products as “The Future Build certified” products — thereby gaining a seal of approval from what is currently one of the largest databases

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