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 ...
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US semiconductor firm Texas Instruments (TI) has launched a 120-V automotive grade half-bridge gate driver, touted to be the fastest in the sector, offering negative voltage handling capability on the high-side pin for hybrid vehicles. ...
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After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
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German automaker Volkswagen has inked an agreement with Chinese joint venture partner SAIC Motor for expanding its main Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) plant in Anting for electric vehicle production in China. The agreement was inked between ...
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Intertek has launched the highest-specification test cells at the Transportation Technologies powertrain test laboratory located in Milton Keynes, UK, to provide automotive powertrain testing and engineering services. In order to provide ...
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General Motors (GM) and SAIC Motor’s joint venture, Shanghai GM is planning to invest CNY100bn ($16bn) over the next five years, to develop new vehicles. The automaker intends to develop ten new or upgraded models each year until ...
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Momentive Performance Materials Inc. will introduce CoatOSil FLX coating modifier at the European Coatings Show (ECS) April 21-23 in Nuremburg, Germany. This new modifier can improve the flexibility of a final coating system without the ...
Electric vehicles have been developing rapidly from the original hybrids, to parallel/serial and plug-in hybrids through the optimization of power drive designs. Since then, the industry has been able to develop all-electric models as the ...
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From April 15-19 the Dixon design studio will take over a 400m2 abandoned a theatre as part of designjunction edit Milan. Meanwhile, they will create an entertainment show highlighting their latest designs through a series of extraordinary ...
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Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC, will come together as one company at the European Coatings Show 2015 to explain how its product families of pigments and resins can be used together to create enticing coatings for a full range of ...
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Unlike slow and steady batteries, 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 ...
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Using a Camry hybrid prototype and a fuel cell bus, Tokyo-based Toyota Motor Corporation aims this year to conduct tests on the streets of Japan that will evaluate the performance of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors, which could ...
Chinese electric auto maker BYD is planning to introduce plug-in hybrid SUVs in 2015 to meet demand for larger vehicles. The company has already started taking orders for 300,000-yuan ($48,000) Tang SUV, a plug-in vehicle and it is also ...
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The China EV 100 this year will study surveys on issues including EV infrastructure, battery improvement, pilot EV business models and intelligent systems. Scholars and entrepreneurs said that charging points will be included in the ...
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Boyd Coatings Research has announced the capability to coat Nitinol medical devices with un-modified PTFE (or other high-temperature-cured fluoropolymer coatings) without adversely affecting the properties of the underlying Nitinol ...
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