Volkswagen has reportedly acquired 5% stake in battery maker QuantumScape to develop technology which will help the company boost the range of electric cars it offers. Volkswagen is planning to use the fireproof battery technology in its ...
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Auto supplier KSR International earlier this year acquired Electronic Motion Systems, an innovative electronics supplier with Manufacturing based inSwansea, Wales, UK and a Development Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to Craig ...
The market for connected street lighting is currently worth around US$104 million, but with global shipments of connected street lights expected to increase four-fold over the next five years, the market is estimated to reach almost US$450 ...
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Bentley Motors will expand its headquarters in the town of Crewe in England with an investment of £40m, thus increasing its total capital in the facility to £840m. The carmaker will build a new 45,000m2 research and ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which manufactures silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers and devices, says that EDN (Electronic Design News) has named its C2M0025120D 1200V, 25mΩ SiC MOSFET as one of the ‘Hot 100 ...
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Tenneco Inc.'s Rancho brand will release two new suspension systems for the 2015 Ford F-150 4WD truck, including 6-inch and 4.5-inch systems that the company says will help maximize handling and performance off-road, and provide a rugged, ...
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Bernin-based Soitec (which makes engineered substrates and CPV systems) and Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE of Freiburg, Germany, have ...
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Raytheon UK’s semiconductor business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has been selected by a “leading automotive manufacturer” to develop a silicon carbide (SiC)-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor ...
As the second Guangzhou international commercial vehicle exhibition grand opening, domestic truck industry leader SAIC-IVECO Hongyan also debuted on the show. SAIC-IVECO Hongyan brought Hongyan GENLYON Joytour version and Hongyan GENLYON ...
Swiss u-blox has revealed that that its Cat. 4 TOBY-L200 4G LTE module has achieved "network compatible" status for North Americas largest LTE network. In the u-blox tradition of miniaturization and reliability, TOBY-L200 is the world's ...
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A zero-gravity ISSpresso coffee machine from Lavazza will be supplied to astronauts on the International Space Station later this year. Developed by Lavazza and engineering firm Argotec, ISSpresso is a capsule-based espresso system ...
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Pete Selleck, left, and Ralph Dimenna hosted the grand opening of the Michelin Tweel plant in Piedmont, S.C., on Nov. 20. Michelin North America Inc. opened its $50 million Tweel Airless Radial Tire plant in Greenville, S.C., today. ...
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Jeanologia, a developer and producer of sustainable finishing technology for denim jeans will launch its latest innovation, ‘Light Scraper’ at ‘Denim By’ trade show in Barcelona. Jeanologia says Light Scraper is a ...
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BMW has commenced a pilot project to test the impact of wearable technology in improving quality assurance of its cars at its plant in Spartanburg in South Carolina. Workers at the plant are using Google Glass to record tests by ...
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and Yokneam, Israel, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for data-center servers and storage systems, has announced sample availability of ...