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Lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries have emerged as the leading battery technology for a wide variety of applications, including mobile devices, grid-scale energy storage, and electric vehicles (EVs).  The market for Li-ion batteries for automobiles is expected to expand rapidly over the next 10 years, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for consumers drawing the largest share.  “The capabilities of Li-ion batteries

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Diodes Incorporated has announced the introduction of the AP7341, a 300mA-rated low dropout regulator in the miniature DFN1010-4 package.  With a tiny 1.0mm x 1.0mm footprint and height of 0.4mm, the device aids the design of high-density circuits in portable products, including smart phones, media players and compact cameras. The regulator’s high power supply ripple rejection ratio of 75dB and

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Announced by VARTA Microbattery is the CellPac BLOX system.  The CellPac BLOX system is a design program implemented to offer OEMs a semi-custom power solution when off-the-shelf lithium ion (li-ion) or lithium polymer (LiPO) soft pack battery assemblies do not meet the design criteria.  A dedicated CellPac BLOX engineering staff is specifically trained to help accelerate time-to-market and minimize non-recurring

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Power Integrations, the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced the launch of its LinkSwitch™-3 family of highly integrated monolithic switching ICs. The new devices deliver accurate primary-side regulation for chargers and adapters up to 10 W, making them suitable for smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, particularly those subject to 30 mW no-load limitations, such

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That tailwind Toyota may be feeling in Japan won’t be from a stiff breeze off the northern Pacific Ocean. The Japanese automaker is getting ready to start selling its first production hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle in its native country next year. And the government is ponying up real big in incentives, Reuters says. The Japanese government will provide incentives worth about

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Africa has experienced massive economic growth over the last decade, but in order for this growth to translate into significant development outcomes, big investments will be needed to provide electricity to the 600 million sub-Saharan Africans who lack it, said a panel of development experts at Breakthrough Dialogue. Lack of cheap and reliable energy is a significant barrier to continued

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Renewable energy on the march Keeping with the steady growth and adoption of renewable energy, the latest Energy Infrastructure Update report just released from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects states that wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and hydropower accounts for 55.7 percent of newly installed generating capacity in the U.S. for the first half of 2014. Of

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LG Chem, the South Korean company that supplies batteries to General Motors and Renault among others carmakers, will offer electric vehicles more than 200 miles of range by 2016, reports Automotive News. Chief financial officer Cho Suk-jeh, who revealed LG Chem’s ambitions last week, did not confirm which carmakers would use the new batteries, although LG Chem’s technology can currently

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A NEW generation of plug-in hybrid taxis will soon ply London streets and will be green enough to satisfy the toughest emissions regulations foreseeable. THE Metrocab REE is the brainchild of British manufacturer Fraser Nash and a development partner, Ecotive. They will be putting the car through its paces in the British capital this summer before offering the cab for

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Exar Corp. announced a family of half duplex RS-485 transceivers optimized to operate over a wide 2.8 V to 5.5 V supply voltage range. The wide operating range makes these transceivers ideal for isolated applications where the remote devices are powered through the cable. The XR33032/5/8 wide supply transceivers can tolerate significant voltage drop along the cable resistance and still

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