A collaborative team led by Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc (APEI) and including Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc, GaN Systems Inc, the University of Arkansas' National Center for Reliable Electric ...
Chinese electric vehicles maker BYD has displayed all-electric e6 taxis to be put into service in the Bogotá, Colombia, a move which marks the launch of the largest all-electric taxi fleet in South America. These fleet vehicles are ...
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According to a report by Navigant Research, about three million of light duty plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) will be sold per year by 2020, accounting for 3% of the total light duty vehicle market. The vehicles will include both plug-in ...
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Automotive supplier Continental has signed a contract with the Swiss high-tech industrial Group Oerlikon for the joint development and marketing of integrated motor and transmission systems for hybrid and electric vehicles. With the ...
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A contract between Nissan and the city of New York for a fleet of taxis is before the courts, with a New York Supreme Court Justice ruling that part of the program’s deal is “null, void and unenforceable”. Industry ...
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Worldwide capacity of Li-ion batteries for Electric vehicles applications is expected to soar ten times from 4,400 megawatt-hours (MWh) in 2013 to nearly 49,000 MWh by 2020, according to a new report by Navigant Research. According to the ...
Uncertainty hangs over the market for power devices made with the wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), due to a lack of clarity over whether and when electric vehicles will adopt them, according to the latest study on the SiC ...
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You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends the daily calendar to the car. The car then works on a plan that makes sure you keep to that schedule. It's not a scene out of a sci-fi movie. It's the ...
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The global gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor device market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18% over 2012-2016, forecasts a new report from TechNavio (the market research platform of Infiniti Research Ltd). ...
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The inverter market grew significantly to $45bn in 2012, and will reach $71bn by 2020, according to Yole Développement in a report on ‘Inverter market trends for 2013-2020 and major technology changes’. “More than ...
French engineering and technology consulting firm, Alten, is planning to set up an automotive testing facility in Chennai, India. The facility is aimed at assisting automobile manufacturers surrounding Chennai to outsource testing of ...
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Toyota Motor will receive about CAD34m ($34.2m) from the Canadian and Ontario governments to retool its Cambridge plant to manufacture hybrid cars in Canada. Both the federal and provincial governments will contribute about CAD16.9m ...
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The global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to reach 3.8 million by 2020, according to a new report from Pike Research. Pike Research senior research analyst Dave Hurst said that sales of EVs have not lived up to automakers' ...
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Under funding from the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Physical Systems Program, a University of Notre Dame research group is attempting to develop mathematical algorithms to help guide the integration of plug-in hybrid electric ...
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Porous Power Technologies and Japan-based Chisso Corp have entered into a cooperate agreement to produce new variants of the SYMMETRIX battery separators for use in automotive batteries. The companies said that SYMMETRIX, which looks like ...