Tag: battery industry

Optimistic government officials and automakers want to put millions of electric cars on American roads in the next decade. There are a lot of issues to be solved to make that happen (limited range, insufficient infrastructure, high costs, to name the big three), but if we ever get there, we’ll be faced with a new problem: How to ensure the

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India is facing down one of the key challenges confronting developing economies: Can it reduce power-sector emissions to curb climate change without hindering economic growth? This challenge became even more pressing when China and the United States, the world’s two largest carbon emitters, agreed to landmark emissions reductions and renewable energy targets. International attention has now turned to India, the

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The NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and ChargePoint have scored a touchdown by boosting electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure within Atlanta. The Atlanta Falcons and ChargePoint had a kickoff event at their most recent home against the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Georgia Dome on December 14th to educate fans about EV charging. The Atlanta Falcons training facility, Georgia World Congress Center, Georgia

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SunPower and Sunverge just announced a big solar+storage partnership, which follows a partnership between SolarCity and Tesla as well as the announcement of several energy storage companies beginning to hit the market. If you thought solar power was disruptive (it is), wait until solar + storage beat the price of grid electricity. I’d say that future isn’t going to be

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Senator Nick Xenophon has brought back a carbon trading scheme to Australia and nobody seems to have noticed. Quietly tucked behind the headlines from the Palmer United Party and the government was the mention of Senator Xenophon inserting a ‘Safeguard Mechanism’ into the Direct Action legislation. The mechanism creates the framework for a baseline and credit system which is similar

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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced a new automotive-grade low-profile, high-current inductor featuring an integrated e-shield for reduction of EMI in the compact 4040 case size. Lowering costs and saving board space in automotive and other applications by eliminating the need for separate board-level shielding for the inductor, the Vishay Dale IHLE-4040DC-5A contains the electric field associated with EMI in a tin-plated

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Silego Technology, Inc. introduced today the SLG4LCxxxxV series, a new Universal Fast Charge Identification Solution, which features Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 2.0 technology. The SLG4LCxxxxV series helps identify devices supporting Quick Charge 2.0 and provides the correct control information to the power supply to set the proper charging voltage. This innovative new Configurable Mixed-signal IC (CMIC) solution also includes support for

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The extremely low profile and light weight of STMicroelectronics‘ latest automotive-qualified high-voltage ultrafast rectifiers support space-efficient vehicle electronics by helping miniaturize electronic control modules, power converters, and motor drives. The new rectifiers are packaged as SMBFlat devices that weigh only 50mg and, at 1mm-thick, are almost 60% thinner than the nearest competing rectifiers in standard 2.4mm-thick SMB packages. This helps

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TDK Corporation has developed a new series of rugged power inductors for use in automotive electronics. The CLF6045NI-D wire-wound SMD power inductors feature high efficiency and reliability over a very wide temperature range extending from -55 to +150 degrees C and offer rated inductance values from 1.0 µH to 470 µH (E6 series). Measuring in at 6.3 mm x 6.0

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The DMN2023UCB4 bi-directional MOSFET from Diodes Incorporatedprovides superior protection for charging 1- and 2-cell lithium batteries. Its low on-state resistance reduces power loss while its thin chip-scale packaging allows designers to use the space saved to increase battery capacity. Target end-markets include smartphones, tablets, cameras, portable media players, and similar consumer products where size, weight and battery life are all

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