Independent Energy Systems (Speinshart, Germany) announced that its AQWON hydrogen-filled, two-stroke, engine scooter has received the German TÜV certificate, and that the...
MDI Enterprises SA (Nice, France) announced the invention of a pollution-free car that runs on air, has a range of some 200km...
Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) has announced that its 800,000ft² assembly, test and warehouse facility in Suzhou, China, is scheduled to be completed next quarter. The facility is located within the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park. Qualification testing is ongoing, and about 250 employees are being trained to immediately begin production. With the new factory, […]
ZAP (Sebastopol, CA) announced that it is revealing a new battery technology for electric cars, a lithium-ion chemistry with the potential to...
Hydro-Quebec (Montreal) and the Societe de Vehicules Electriques (SVE) of France announced that they are actively collaborating to engineer an electric vehicle...
Allegro MicroSystems Inc. (Worcester, MA) introduced a next-generation, differential digital, gear tooth sensor with a two-wire back-biased package, peak detecting algorithms and...
Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) has confirmed the appointment of Dennis Campbell as President and Chief Executive Officer effective...
Fairchild Semiconductor International (South Portland, ME) announced that Kirk Pond, president, CEO and chairman of the board, has extended his contract with the company and will remain president, CEO and chairman of the board for an additional two years. Pond's current contract expires on March 11, 2003. Additional details are provided in the company's preliminary […]
NextEnergy (Detroit, MI), a non-profit, alternative energy research, development and education corporation, received $2 million in federal funds through the Fiscal Year...
Micronas GmbH (Germany) debuted the new HAL 1500 programmable Hall-effect switch, which is aimed at automotive applications requiring position sensing such as...
General Motors Corp. (GM, Detroit, MI) and Shell Hydrogen BV (the Netherlands) are bringing a fleet of fuel-cell minivans to Washington, DC,...
The United States Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive Center (NAC) introduced a Class 8 Freightliner truck with a prototype, liquid-fueled,...
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) announced that it and its primary domestic operating subsidiary, Semiconductor Components Industries LLC, co-issued $200 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes pursuant to a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering. The senior secured notes were priced at 95.467 percent of the principal amount, with a coupon of 12 percent. The […]
Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. (South Portland, ME) stated that first-quarter revenues are tracking slightly ahead of original projections given by the company during its fourth-quarter 2002 earnings conference call. During the quarter, Fairchild had stronger orders from notebook PC, power supply, printer, lighting, wireless networking and computing storage end markets, while orders have been weaker from […]
US Senator Ron Wyden (OR) and US Representative Christopher Cox (CA) have introduced a bipartisan bill called the H2GROW Act – Hydrogen Transportation Wins over Growing Reliance on Oil, which includes tax credits for the purchase of fuel cell vehicles, for hydrogen fuel, and for building a hydrogen-fueling infrastructure. The goal of the H2GROW Act […]