Ricardo Inc. (Van Buren Twp., MI), an independent automotive engineering consulting company, has acquired the IFT Group (Germany), an automotive engineering group. The IFT Group provide engine systems expertise, particularly in the areas of high-performance and niche-exhaust systems, prototyping, small series production, and testing services covering vehicle, engines and related systems, serving a strong established […]
Exide Technologies (Princeton, NJ) announced that it has filed a plan of reorganization with the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Under the proposed plan, which is subject to certain creditor approval and confirmation by the Bankruptcy Court, Exide will emerge from Chapter 11 with dramatically reduced debt and a reorganized capital structure. […]
Lithium Technology Corp. (LTC, Plymouth Meeting, PA), an early production stage rechargeable lithium battery manufacturer, announced that its GAIA operating units have received firm purchase orders for high-performance, lithium-ion, prototype batteries for transportation applications from two different customers. The company's GAIA USA (Plymouth Meeting, PA) unit has received a purchase order from Penn State University […]
Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA), a subsidiary of Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Malvern, PA), announced 12 new 20V VDS/20V VGS power MOSFETs in the thermally enhanced PowerPAK and D2PAK and conventional DPAK packages. The new devices offer low on-resistance and low on-resistance-times-gate-charge product. The new devices can handle up to 70A in the DPAK and 110A […]
Palcan Fuel Cells Ltd. (Burnaby, BC) announced a joint marketing agreement with Nagase and Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) to distribute fuel cell stacks and systems for the Japanese marketplace. Nagase, founded in 1832, has 100 subsidiary companies in Japan and overseas, and sales of US$4.19 billion. The two companies will lever Nagase's expertise as a […]
The State of Hawaii and Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, Korea) announced a two-year extension of the Hawaii Electric Vehicle Demonstration program, which initially began in 2001. Officials said the program partners, which also include the US Air Force, the City and County of Honolulu, the Hawaiian Electric Company, and Enova Systems (Torrance, CA), will focus […]
Dell Corp. (Round Rock, TX) announced that more than 90 high school students from New York to Mexico embarked on a 1,500-mile race in hand-built, solar-powered cars. The eighth annual Dell-Winston Solar Car Challenge, which begins at Dell's headquarters, will wind its way through Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, en route to the finish line in […]
Boeing Co. (Chicago, IL) announced its partners for a demonstrator airplane project aimed at exploring the use of fuel cell technology for future aerospace applications. The research project, led by the Boeing Research and Technology Center in Madrid, Spain, includes Intelligent Energy (UK), Diamond Aircraft Industries (Austria), Spanish companies Sener and Aerlyper, and Advanced Technology […]
General Motors Corp. (GM, Detroit, MI) and FedEx Corp. marked a first in Japan by delivering packages in a fuel-cell vehicle (FCV),...
UQM Technologies Inc. (Frederick, CO), a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced that it has been awarded a two-year, $750,000 contract from the US Department of Energy (DOE, Washington, DC) to continue the development of a modular line of high-performance motors for hybrid-electric and fuel cell electric vehicles under the Small Business Innovation Research Program. […]
UQM Technologies Inc. (Frederick, CO), a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced that it has received a contract from the US Navy to evaluate the application of hybrid-electric propulsion to small military boats. The $70,000 Phase I contract was awarded by the Office of Naval Research under the Small Business Innovation Research program and will […]
The American Solar Challenge started in front of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL, on July 13, 2003, in...
UTC Fuel Cells (South Windsor, CT), a part of United Technologies Corp. (South Windsor, CT), and Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, Korea) have signed an agreement to jointly develop a new automotive fuel cell power plant capable of operating in freezing conditions. The agreement calls for Hyundai and UTC Fuel Cells to work jointly to develop […]
An employee shot and killed three co-workers and wounded four others at a Modine Manufacturing Co. (Racine, WI) manufacturing plant on the...
Linear Technology Corp. (LTC, Milpitas, CA) introduced the new LT1950 pulse-width modulator (PWM) controller to protect, simplify and reduce the size of...