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Ever wondered when the police and army will get around to going electric? Well, that time may now be here — in China anyways… for some purposes. The Chinese company Suzhou Zijing Qingyuan New Energy Vehicle Technology Corporation (Zijing Qingyuan) has developed the new Zijing Qingyuan Armored Spherical Cabin Electric Patrol Vehicle with the sole intention of marketing it for

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Bourns, Inc. announced the company’s new SMD Power Inductor Series that includes nine new devices designed for automotive applications. Designated the Bourns® Models SDE0403A, SDE0604A, SDE0805A, SRF0703A, SRF0905A, SRF1280A, SRR0745A, SRR1210A and SRR6040A, the new series consists of non-shielded and shielded construction devices that are AEC-Q200 qualified. The series features inductance values from 0.47 to 6500 µH, has a heating

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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today introduced its new trench IGBT platform featuring Punch Through (PT) and Field Stop (FS) technologies. Designed to increase efficiency in motor drives, UPS, solar inverters, and welding machine inverters, the Vishay Semiconductors devices, provided as bare die, offer low collector-to-emitter voltages and fast and soft turn-on and turn-off for low conduction and switching losses while providing

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Murata has announced the OKDx-T/50 series of 50-Amp digitally-controlled point-of-load (POL) dc-dc converters from Murata Power Solutions. These converters, adding to Murata’s Okami range of non-isolated converters, are capable of delivering 50A / 165W from a module measuring only 30.85 x 20.0 x 8.2 mm. Available in three different package formats, through-hole, single-in-line, and surface-mount, the converters can be configured

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In a discussion today about solar energy and the coming Year of Light, author John Perlin helped enlighten me about the importance of the solar cell (photovoltaic systems) as a source for renewable electrical energy. What is the single most significant consideration in designing a PV system, as opposed to a solar thermal system that is founded using multiple heliostats?

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If you feel a disturbance in the Intertubes today, that would be the fallout from the announcement of Ward’s 10 Best Engines List for 2015. For the first time since Ward’s Automotive Reports began the annual list in 1995, a fuel cell engine has made the cut. That would be the one humming away inside the 2015 Hyundai Tucson fuel

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Did Elon Musk use “supposed negotiations” with BMW on a possible collaboration involving battery and charging station technologies as a means of free publicity? With Tesla “adorning” itself with the BMW brand for “publicity purposes”? That’s exactly what a Norwegian newspaper is alleging — that Musk/Tesla lied about a potential collaboration with the German automaker as a means of gaining

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Enevate Corporation announced HD-Energy® Technology for Li-ion batteries. Enevate’s HD-Energy Technology enables high energy density rechargeable Li-ion polymer cells using a novel silicon-dominant composite anode that has four times the energy density of conventional graphite anodes. Enevate Corporation, based in Irvine, California, is focused on delivering advanced Li-ion batteries into smartphones, tablets, ultra-thin/hybrid notebook PCs, and wearable devices, delivering significantly

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As if displaced desert tortoises, burned birds and political theater around the loan guarantee program weren’t enough problems for the Ivanpah concentrating solar project, the owners are now dealing with lower-than-expected electricity production. From January to August of this year, the 392-megawatt plant generated far less than the electricity expected. For some, it’s yet more proof of the technical limitations

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Hawaii is already a real-world test bed for the challenges of bringing high penetrations of rooftop solar onto its island power grids. Now Hawaiian Electric Co., the state’s main utility, is joining forces with SolarCity to try out a tool that could help manage its solar-impacted electricity networks: smart inverters. Last month, the two announced they’re going to Golden, Colo.

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