Electric drive motors sale is expected to reach 3.7 million units by 2020 from 1.5 million units sold in 2013, according to the report from Navigant Research. The electric vehicles (EV) being used currently are the customized conventional ...
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Automotive supplier Continental has started testing of new digital car key technology that is wirelessly installed in a smartphone. The company has begun a field test in Bordeaux with a fleet of electric vehicles along with Veolia, ...
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HAI by Leviton announced today the launch of its KNX Gateway, an interface allowing HAI by Leviton’s Omni and Lumina Ethernet-based controllers to communicate with and control KNX devices through KNX’s standardized network ...
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Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc (APEI) of Fayetteville, AR, USA, a developer of technology for power electronics systems, electronic motor drives and power electronics packaging, and GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ...
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Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles (MREVPL), the manufacturing arm of Indian auto maker Mahindra & Mahindra, has launched the new electric vehicle (EV) e2o. The EV is powered by Lithium Ion batteries that have a range of 100km per charge, ...
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Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity more challenging. A key problem is that the ...
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Quebec's Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe has announced it will install three public charging stations for electric vehicles in its parking lot as of this summer—becoming one of the newest members of The Electric Circuit. "The ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) has launched the Total GaN family of gallium nitride on silicon transistors and diodes, establishing what is claimed to ...
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The Light Electric Vehicle Association is working with organizers of DealerCamp to bring e-bikes to the event, which is being held July 25-27 in Park City, Utah. DealerCamp will feature the "LEVA E-Bike Charge," an area of the show ...
California-based Balqon has signed a deal with China-based Sichuan Automobile Industry (SAIG) to manufacture inner city electric buses in China. As part of the deal, SAIG has purchased Balqon's electric drive system to be fitted into a ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) is stepping up production of gallium nitride on ...
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The Renault Zoe is a full electric-vehicle with no internal combustion engine. This means that at no time are there any fossil fuels going into a tank, because it doesn’t have one, and emissions aren’t expelled from an exhaust ...
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ChargePoint has launched the first of over the 80 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to be installed around New York in the US. The charging stations have been installed with a funding of $1m from the New York State Energy Research ...
An Australian launch for the all-electric Renault Zoe is still a possibility if Renault gets its way. Speaking with CarAdvice at the Geneva motor show, Renault Australia boss Justin Hocevar said that while there’s still a lot of ...
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Linear Technology has revealed its solution to the thorny problem of active cell balancing in electric and hybrid vehicle batteries. Implemented in the newly-released LTC3300, the topology uses one fly-back transformer per cell and allows ...