The Tesla 3 gets nearly double the range of the Nissan Leaf by using nearly double the amount of battery but engineers are using a multitude of work rounds to do better: aerodynamics, light-weighting, even including structural electronics ...
Tags: battery vehicle, fuel cell
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that it is pushing ahead with research on perovskite solar cells within the three-year project PeroBOOST (running from March 2016 to February 2019). Aixtron ...
Daimler is planning to invest more than €7bn over the next two years on green powertrain technologies, including a plug-in hybrid electric-hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. The company will invest €14.5bn in research and development ...
Tags: green powertrain technologies, runabout, electric vehicle
Nissan is working on a system that will power cars with electricity generated from bio-ethanol. The Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC) system is claimed to be the world first for automotive use. It features an e-Bio Fuel-Cell with an SOFC power ...
Tags: SOFC, e-Bio Fuel Cell
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has set a world record for thin-film photovoltaic cell energy ...
Tags: ZSW, silicon cells
McLaren Packaging, which operates from four sites across Scotland has completed a significant investment in its manufacturing capabilities. The company has just finalised a £350k investment in its Stirling-based operation Blue Box ...
Tags: McLaren Packaging, Blue Box Design
Toyota will use solar panels at its Texas headquarters, which is currently under construction, in order to get 25% of its power from the sun. The company claims that the 7.75MW system will be the largest office-site solar installation in ...
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RPC Saplast has ntroduced a ‘leg’ version of its 630 PE containers, available without a pallet board. The new design provides an ideal solution for customers who require complete four way access. It can be specified with a lid ...
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Toyota Motor will exhibit at Smart Community Japan 2016, to be held at Tokyo Big Site, for three days from June 15 to 17. The star attraction from Toyota will be the unveiling of the Japanese version of the new model Prius PHV. At this ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched a suite of high-performance amplifiers specifically addressing the rapidly growing small-cell infrastructure market. As ...
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The sales of x-electric vehicles (xEV) in China reached a historic high of 300,000 units in 2015. Correspondingly, the market for xEV lithium batteries witnessed surging growth in the same period. In the fourth quarter, for instance, xEV ...
A new highly efficient power amplifier (PA) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS could help to make possible next-generation cell phones, low-cost collision-avoidance radar for cars and lightweight microsatellites for communications, ...
Tags: Power Amplifier, Cell Phones
True Zero has opened a hydrogen-fuel station in California, US. Snipping the ribbon in front of the True Zero dispenser at Conserv Fuel, 150 S. LaCumbre Road, included: Aeron Arlin-Genet, District Director & Air Pollution Control Officer, ...
Several China-based first-tier and second-tier PV makers have been expanding or plan to expand solar cell production capacity in China or overseas, and they are likely to ramp up an additional annual capacity of as much as 15GWp in ...
Tags: PV makers, Solar Cell
Honda Automobile (Thailand) has opened a THB17.15bn ($465m) production facility at Rojana Industrial Park in Prachinburi province. The new facility will have capacity to produce 120,000 units per year. Featuring a 214,000m2 of space, ...
Tags: Auto Plant, Honda