A new £2.5 million fund will give Scottish motorists access to an interest-free loan of up to £50,000 for electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. The Electric Vehicle Loan is open to anyone looking to buy a new electric or ...
The Beijing Government in China is taking a call on investment worth tens of billions of yuan to bolster its alternative energy auto sector as part of a national strategy for coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. ...
Tags: New-Energy Cars, imported vehicles
Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) – which was spun off from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2012 – has announced a range of gallium nitride (GaN) transistors and power electronic circuits targeted at cutting energy ...
According to the statistics from the China Association of Automobile manufacturers (CAAM), the production and sales of new energy vehicles in China during June 2015 reached 19,153 units and 21,055 units respectively, increasing 2.7 times ...
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Battery
According to the report 'GaN and SiC for power electronics applications' from Yole Développement, in 2014 the silicon carbide (SiC) chip business was worth more than $133m, with power factor correction (PFC) and photovoltaics (PV) ...
Tags: SiC Market, power electronics
Ride sharing firm Opoli Technologies has joined hands with BYD Motors, a Chinese automobile, IT and new energy firm, for deploying 50 zero-emission e6 electric vehicles for its fleet in San Diego, US. Aimed to reduce traffic congestion as ...
Tags: Electric Car, electric vehicles, BYD
Kwaithong Motor will pump in $0.14m to set up an assembly unit for electric vehicles in Thailand with a view to catering to the domestic and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) markets. Set to come up in Greater Bangkok, the ...
Green Charge Networks, provider of commercial energy storage in the US, has announced its partnership with ChargePoint, the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Combining energy storage with EV charging eliminates ...
II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA says that the Advanced Materials Division of its Performance Products Segment in Pine Brook, NJ, which supplies single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) substrates and CVD-grown polycrystalline diamond materials, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, II-VI, SiC substrates, SiC Wafer
Automotive giant BMW and global energy firm Total have jointly opened a hydrogen station, armed with a first-of-its-kind, two-mode refueling system, at Detmoldstrasse, Munich, in Germany. With this, the European HyFIVE project's South ...
ELIX Wireless has announced the E10K Wireless Charging System, a wireless charging solution that delivers a full 10kW of wireless power transfer. The E10K Wireless Charging System is based on ELIX Wireless' patented Magneto-Dynamic ...
The Auckland Council in New Zealand is switching on to electric vehicles (EVs), substituting 10 of its petrol vehicles with two all-electric Nissan Leafs and eight Toyota Prius hybrids. If everything works as planned, the civic body will ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, auto accessories, petrol vehicles
US-based Kettering University's Advanced Power Electronics Lab (APEL) has joined hands with German automotive lighting and electronic products firm HELLA for bringing about an innovation towards charging electric vehicles (EV). HELLA has ...
The Cambridge University Eco-Racing (CEUR) Team will launch solar-powered racing car Evolution, which has been developed by a team comprising 60 students. With a view to spreading awareness about electric vehicles, the racing car will ...
Tags: racing car, Jaguar Land Rover
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