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Tesla is rumored to be working on some sort of battery factory in Indonesia, according to comments made by a local official. Local news in Indonesia is reporting that the country’s Maritime Affairs Coordinating Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan is stating that Tesla is amongst several companies looking to build battery manufacturing facilities in Indonesia’s Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central

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The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) awarded £33m in the twelfth-round of government-funding to advance the UK’s low carbon automotive capability. The funding is intended for innovative programs that are expected to secure and create 2,230 jobs in research and manufacturing sectors across the UK. APC selects projects because of their contribution to the UK’s development of cutting-edge technology and their alignment to

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ALFREDO ESTRELLAGETTY IMAGES We’ve known for a few years now that solar power is surging in the U.S. and the rest of the world: costs have been falling for a while and countries like the United States, China, and India have been building so many solar panels that solar was the world’s fastest growing energy source in 2016. But thanks to a recently-published report

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Bosch’s electric bicycle motors and batteries have been leading the market for years without seeing many significant advancements. Now the company is hoping to change that with the release of its new line of upgraded motors and batteries. Bosch’s new 2020 motors and batteries We first covered leaks of Bosch’s 2020 motor and battery refresh last month. It turns out we

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Stanford University Professor Hongjie Dai and colleagues have developed a high-performance aluminum battery. And they use Neware battery testers in their daily research work. Stanford University scientists have invented the first high-performance aluminum battery that’s fast-charging, long-lasting and inexpensive. Researchers say the new technology offers a safe alternative to many commercial batteries in wide use today. “We have developed a rechargeable aluminum battery

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ROHM is announcing the availability of a 12- to 76-Vdc input, 3A variable output voltage, dc-dc buck converter with integrated 76V MOSFET optimized for high power (high voltage x large current) applications such as motors, factory automation equipment, communications infrastructure, and industrial machinery. The BD9G341AEFJ utilizes ROHM’s high-voltage 0.6um BiCDMOS process to achieve a maximum breakdown voltage of 80V (the

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Linear Technology Corporationannounces the LTC3884, a dual-output current-mode synchronous step-down dc-dc controller with programmable loop compensation and I²C-based PMBus interface. This device enables the use of very low dc resistance (DCR) power inductors (0.3 milliohms) by enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio of the current sense signal to maximize converter efficiency and increase power density. Recommended: Jeffrey Beck now Astrodyne TDI President

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The HCS Series from Stackpole now includes an 0.2 milliOhm resistance value in the 3920 and 5930 chip sizes. This extremely low resistance value allows higher power current sensing with greater efficiency. In addition, the all-metal raised element means lower PCB temperatures due to increased convection under the part. The HCS typically runs 15 to 30 degrees C cooler than

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Artesyn Embedded Technologies today launched the ADQ500 series, new 500-Watt quarter-brick isolated dc-dc converters with the high efficiency and thermal performance demanded by telecom network and data center equipment. ADQ500 series converters are Artesyn’s first to have both a digital interface version and an analog interface version, with both following the industry standard DOSA footprints. The digital interface version allows

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Analog Devices, Inc. today introduced a 24-bit data acquisition system-on-chip (SoC) series designed to improve the performance of protection, monitoring, and power quality measurement equipment used to manage transmission and distribution (T&D) within smart grid systems. The AD7770 enables higher performance and smaller form factor protection relays, while the AD7771 enables power quality measurement equipment to provide early detection of

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