Renewables
One out of every two Germans could drive an e-car • 30 percent would prefer to do so
Electric vehicles have market potential – at the very latest, as soon as they experience a drop in price. This is one of the findings of the “Continental Mobility Study”, drawn up at the behest of Continental by the infas market and social research institute. The results show: 99 percent of Germans know about electric vehicles. And... nine out of ten motorists in Germany drive less than 100 km each day. This means that the electric cars cur...
SK Innovation and Continental team up to power electric vehicles worldwide
SK Innovation and Continental Corporation announce at the Detroit Motor Show today their intention to team up for powering electric vehicles worldwide: Both corporations sign a Heads of Agreement that describes the formation of a joint venture with which both companies want to develop, manufacture and market Lithium Ion battery systems for automotive applications. Due to the worldwide regulatory efforts in reducing carbon emissions and changing c...
Eaton Corporation and Coulomb Technologies Connect Electric Vehicle Drivers to Comprehensive, Convenient Vehicle Charging
Eaton Corporation and Coulomb Technologies today announced plans to significantly expand the North American footprint of charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs). Through an agreement between the two companies, Eaton’s Level II and DC quick charging Pow-R-Station charging stations can now connect to Coulomb’s ChargePoint® Network, the largest network of independently owned charging stations in the world.
Solar panel monitoring and control powered by GreenPeak chips
GreenPeak Technologies today announced a wireless monitoring and control system solution for solar panel installations that will allow individual panel parameter tracking and control.
MicroPower step-up low-voltage booster module enables practical energy capture from low-power generators
Advanced Linear Devices Inc., announces the release of a new family of MicroPower Step-up Low-Voltage Booster Modules. Designated the ALD EH4200 Series, these printed circuit board modules are designed to step-up or boost the output voltage of certain popular energy generators, which by themselves are unable to initiate the electronic capture process for efficiently harvesting ambient or waste energy.
Ultra Low Power Meets Energy Harvesting
Macro-scale energy harvesting technologies in the form of windmills, watermills and passive solar power systems have been around for centuries. Now, as designers seek to cut the cords, they turn to microenergy harvesting systems that can scavenge milliwatts from solar, vibrational, thermal and biological sources. However, understanding ultra-low power from the sourcing side brings challenges as harvested power derived from ambient sources tends t...
DOE awards over $7 million to advance hydrogen storage technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy have granted more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel cell electric vehicles.
Electric car unplugged - Daimler to test inductive charging
Charging electric cars without an electric cable - how does that work? Daimler AG is about to test inductive charging for the first time on a vehicle in everyday use in the form of a technically modified Mercedes-Benz A-Class E-CELL. With the inductive charging principle, an electric car fitted with a special charging coil merely has to be positioned over a charging coil in the ground to start the charging process fully automatically, with no ne...
Silicon Labs Powers Wireless Networking Solution with Energy Harvesting System
Silicon Laboratories Inc. has introduced the industry’s most energy-efficient wireless sensor node solution powered by a solar energy harvesting source. The new turnkey energy harvesting reference design enables developers to implement self-sustaining, ultra-low-power wireless sensor networks for home and building automation, security systems, industrial control applications, medical monitoring devices, asset tracking systems and infrastructure...
Imec, Polyera and Solvay set 8.3% efficiency record for organic solar cell with inverted device architecture
Imec, Polyera and international chemical group Solvay have achieved a new world-record efficiency of 8.3% for polymer-based single junction organic solar cells in an inverted device stack. These excellent performance results represent a crucial step towards successful commercialization of organic photovoltaic cells.