Sales and production of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Outlander PHEV have been halted in Japan as the manufacturer recalls the vehicles for an issue related to their lithium-ion battery packs. Industry journal Automotive News reports that ...
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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 ...
GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystal growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired substantially all ...
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GT Advanced Technologies today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the business of Thermal Technology LLC for purchase consideration, consisting of approximately 3.4 million shares of GTAT common stock and an earn out. ...
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Hybrid electric powertrain developer XL Hybrids has signed a product installation and distribution contract with the commercial vehicle equipment provider Knapheide Manufacturing Company in North America. Under the partnership, Knapheide ...
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The company that built a flying car is working on its next project -- a four-seat, hybrid-electric flying car. Terrafugia Inc., the developer of the Transition driveable airplane, announced this week that its vision of the future of ...
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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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US based automobile manufacturer Terrafugia is planning to build a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) plug-in hybrid-electric flying car, the TF-X. The TF-X will be equipped with electric motors and custom-made rotors and will be powered ...
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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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BAE Systems has secured a contract to supply hybrid propulsion system for Nova LFS hybrid electric (HEV) buses in Quebec. Under the contract, the BAE Systems will deliver 475 units of the HybriDrive Series propulsion system for HEV buses ...
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Automotive supplier Continental has expanded its Nuremberg center of competence in Germany, for testing electric vehicles. The company has invested EUR2.6m in its new testing facility located at its HighTech Center North that will conduct ...
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A new data interface for battery management systems has been designed to provide interference immunity and to support distributed battery systems, writes Jon Munson from Linear Technology. For reliability of battery packs being designed ...
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There’s good news for potential buyers of clean energy vehicles (CEVs) in British Columbia. If you thought you had missed out on your chance to save up to $5000 on a qualifying CEV, don’t worry: the province’s ...