May 6, 2013 - Ontario Power Generation (OPG) says it has been awarded its first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification by the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) for the St. Lawrence Power Development ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, LEED
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 ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Electronics, Power Devices
South Korean electronics group LG Chem's US subsidiary, LG Chem Michigan (LGCMI) will start production of automotive lithium-ion battery cells at its Holland, Michigan facility in July 2013. The company has started the testing runs at the ...
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AlN crystal maker CrystAl-N GmbH of Fürth, Germany says it is now moving from production of 1-inch to 2-inch AlN and accepting pre-orders. According to the firm, which was founded in 2010 as spin-off of Friedrich-Alexander-University ...
Tags: UV LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
The California-based assembler of the Chinese-made Coda electric car has filed bankruptcy. Coda Holdings, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the District of Delaware overnight, which is intended to ...
Tags: electric vehicles, Coda Files
US based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer T3 Motion has signed a contract with the vehicle electronics provider McDonald Technologies to produce EVs. Under the deal, both the companies will collaborate for manufacturing of T3 Motion's ...
Tags: electric vehicle, T3 Motion
Chinese manufacturer Geely Automobile has signed a partnership with US EV company Detroit Electric to jointly develop a range of pure-electric vehicles that is set to launch in China in 2014. Due to go on sale in the first quarter of 2014 ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Hitachi and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) have launched operation in an electricity vehicle demonstration project in Malaga, Spain. The project is being launched as part of a Smart Community System ...
Chinese carmaker Zhejiang Geely has partnered with the US based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Detroit Electric to jointly develop pure EVs and electric drive systems for Chinese market. Under the collaboration, the companies will ...
Tags: Detroit Electric, Chinese Market
Honda will campaign an unprecedented 10 vehicles across nine race classes when it tackles the 2013 Pikes Peak Hill Climb event in Colorado in June. Spread across its Honda and Acura brands – the latter being the Japanese ...
Great Wall could become the first large-scale Chinese automotive brand to go on sale in the US after the company announced its intentions to launch in the market by 2015. Great Wall president Wang Fengying told industry journal Automotive ...
Tags: Great Wall, SUV
The all-electric Nissan Leaf will be the centrepiece of a new electric vehicle taxi pilot launched in New York City. The EV pilot program, launched by Nissan and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will see six Nissan Leaf taxis put ...
Tags: Nissan Leaf, Taxi Pilot
Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars has developed a new on-board charger for its upgraded C30 electric vehicle (EV) in collaboration with Siemens, which is claimed to be capable of fully charging the car in about 1.5 hours. ...
Tags: Volvo, Fast Charger, EV
Chinese pure electric vehicles (EV) manufacturer Kandi Technologies' subsidary Zhejiang Kandi Vehicles has signed a EV supply contract with Hong Kong based Tianjin Sinopoly New Energy Investment (Tianjin Sinopoly). Under the RMB75.62m ...
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Sinopoly
Renault previously toyed with the idea of a performance-oriented electric vehicle when it presented the DeZir Concept at the 2010 Paris motor show, but now the French car maker has promised to reveal a serious high-performance EV at its ...
Tags: Renault Teases, EV Concept