Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power has launched a new fleet of plug-in electric hybrid Chevy Volts. The company has added 32 new electric vehicles (EVs) to its fleet, demonstrating flexibility of driving electric. Georgia ...
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology has presented what it says is the first demonstration of indium gallium arsenide on-insulator (In0.53Ga0.47As-OI) transistors with a buried yttrium oxide (Y2O3 BOX) layer [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE ...
Siemens has launched a Wi-Fi enabled electric vehicle (EV) charging station, VersiCharge Smartgrid (SG). The cloud-based charging station will allow residential owners to monitor and control usage remotely, turn charging on or off, ...
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BMW i3 electric vehicle has topped KBB's list of greenest production vehicles for two years running. That means that having the lowest purchase price wasn't that big of a factor in determining the winner. The i3’s story begins ...
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Royal Philips NV of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (the world's largest lighting producer) has agreed to sell an 80.1% stake in its combined LED components and Automotive lighting business to GO Scale Capital, a new growth-stage investment fund ...
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Funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Invest Northern Ireland (InvestNI) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) government agencies through the US-Ireland R&D Partnership program, over €1m has been awarded for the project ...
Royal Philips has announced that it has signed an agreement with a consortium led by GO Scale Capital through which it will acquire an 80.1% interest in Philips' combined LED components and automotive lighting business, with Philips ...
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German automaker Daimler has chosen Korean advanced battery maker LG Chem to supply lithium-ion batteries for its Smart EVs which scheduled to be launched in 2016. LG Chem highlighted that it will providing battery cells to Smart EV and ...
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Honda has announced a new lease programs for the existing and prospective Fit EV customers. Under the new program, the existing Fit EV customers will get a two-year lease extension , along with lower monthly payment option of $199, ...
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Advanced sealing technology maker Freudenberg-NOK is planning to install four (PEV) charging stations at its headquarters in Michigan, as a part of the Workplace Charging Challenge Pledge program created by the US Department of Energy ...
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Nissan has announced that the company will conduct a local trial run of a car-sharing network for residents of the Sakonyama Danchi District in Yokohama City, Japan, starting this March using its using ultra-compact EVs. Nissan will be ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching transistors based on its proprietary Island Technology for power conversion and control applications, has announced new top-side ...
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Uber has signed a deal with Chinese automaker BYD—Build Your Dream—to let Uber drivers rent or lease BYD's e6 vehicles. They move to potentially challenge Telsa Motors Incand other green-vehicle makers. About 25 BYD cars have ...
EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has introduced two new configurations to its EVG580 ComBond series of automated ...
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SupercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists between the conductors. Its value is ...
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