The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) have extended a grant under Vehicle Technologies (VT) drive to Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center (HATCI) and Mojo Mobility to develop a system ...
Tags: automobile technology, auto accessories, HATCI, electric vehicle
EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has unveiled the HERCULES NIL — a fully integrated track system that combines cleaning, ...
Seiko Instruments has announced the release of the new S-35720 Series convenience timer IC suitable for managing relative time after engine shut-down with its optional alarm time in 1 second increments from 1 second to 194 days. The ...
Tags: Automobile technology, automobile manufacture, S-35720 Series
US-based Evatran Group has notched up $1.6m in strategic investment from automotive parts manufacturer Zhejiang VIE Science and Technology Company (VIE) as part of the first phase of a partnership to introduce ‘Plugless’ ...
US automobile major General Motors (GM) will pump in $245 million at its Orion Assembly unit in Michigan to launch new vehicles, creating 300 employment opportunities. With this, the investment made in the manufacturing unit reaches ...
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After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
Tags: EV Sector, electric vehicle
China is set to regulate pure electric vehicle makers' production conditions from July 10 and encourage innovative companies to join the research and production. The future EVs should have a max speed faster than 100 km/h. The regulation ...
Tags: electric vehicle, pure electric vehicle, EV
US-based regulated public utility firm San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will put in place electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at up to 550 business and multi-family sites in the Californian region under its pilot program Electric ...
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China's new 10-year new-energy vehicle development plan has more objective, practical goals than the one released in 2012, after NEV sales in the first quarter accounted for only 5 percent of this year's original target. The Ministry of ...
Analog Devices Inc (ADI) of Norwood, MA, USA (which provides ICs for analog and digital signal processing applications) has introduced a highly integrated, 4-channel, 24GHz receiver downconverter monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
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Automobile manufacturers Nissan and BMW have joined hands for building a grid for charging stations to be used by electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) across South Africa. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding ...
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At the Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM) Europe 2015 event in Nurnberg, Germany (19-21 May), president Girvan Patterson of GaN Systems Inc in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power ...
Japanese automobile technology firm FOMM is scouting for a local partner to set up an electric vehicle plant in Thailand, picturing the country as a hub for European exports. The unit, estimated to entail an investment of $10m, would ...
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Panasonic Corp of Osaka, Japan is launching what it claims is the industry's smallest enhancement-mode (E-mode) gallium nitride (GaN) power transistor, encapsulating into an 8x8 dual-flat no-lead (DFN) 'X-GaN' surface-mount package. A ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which manufactures silicon carbide (SiC)-based power products, has launched what it claims is the first 900V MOSFET platform. Optimized for high-frequency power electronics applications, including renewable ...
Tags: power products, silicon carbide