Motorola Inc. (Schaumberg, IL) announced it is reducing its work force by another 7,000 jobs, including an unspecified number of layoffs. It...
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, NY) announced that it has received a $1.2 million award from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) to supply fuel cells to the Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, NY. Under the terms of the contract, Plug Power will manufacture, install and operate 10 fuel cell systems […]
UQM Technologies Inc. (Golden, CO) announced that it has received a $100,000 first-phase contract from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a power electronic inverter for distributed power. Power electronic inverters are used to convert dc output of power generation equipment such as solar panels and fuel cells to 110V/220V alternating current. The […]
Power Technology Inc. (Las Vegas, NV) announced that prototypes of the company's patented lead-acid batteries have been built and are currently undergoing testing procedures. Two distinct types of batteries, "Motive" and "Telecom" are currently being produced. The initial 75Ah Motive power battery is smaller and lighter than a similar 75Ah battery built by Douglas Battery, […]
Catalytica Energy Systems Inc. (Mountain View, CA) and Solar Turbines Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced the start of a new developmental program, which would combine Catalytica Energy Systems' Xonon cool combustion technology with Solar Turbines' Taurus 60, a 5MW gas turbine, as part of a $3.0 million grant recently awarded to Solar Turbines by the […]
Ansoft Corp. (Pittsburgh) expanded its operations in September with the opening of two Automotive Product and Technology Solutions (APT) centers near Detroit, MI, and in Nagoya, Japan. The offices will provide expert software design, training and support services for automotive OEMs such as GM, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi and their suppliers. "With these new […]
H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ) reported its fiscal 2002 first-quarter results for the period ended August 31, 2001. For the first quarter...
Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Cody, WY) reported progress on its solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) developments. The use of nano-sized yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) enables production of a thinner film, which increases the oxyanion transfer efficiency. Altair has only recently made its nano YSZ available to fuel cell developers. The nano-sized YSZ is reported to form the porous […]
Tyco Electronics Power Systems (Dallas, TX) unveiled the Infinity platform, an energy system capable of handling the power requirements of a wide...
Siliconix Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced its new 30V power MOSFETs specified for gate drives down to 2.5V. The three new n-channel...
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, NY) announced that it will cut 80 to 90 jobs due to the economy and decreased capital spending....
Ericsson Microelectronics (Kista, Sweden) announced its 90-percent efficient, fully independent, 110W dual-output half-brick dc/dc power module, the PKJ 4128 PIT. This unit...
Emerson Electric Co. (St. Louis, MO) and Huawei Technologies' (Shenzhen, China) announced that Emerson has acquired Huawei's Avansys Power Co. Ltd. (San...
Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) issued a recall for approximately 95,000 power adapters that it had sold worldwide because of overheating problems, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The adapters, which are used with certain Cisco ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) routers, can overheat and melt a hole through the housing, […]
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) introduced the new 100V, IRFB4710 and IRFS4710 HEXFET power MOSFETs that increase power density in 48V input, half- or full-bridge topologies used in the high-performance dc/dc converters required for telecom and datacom equipment. The new IRFB4710 is rated at 75A in the TO-220 package, or 30 percent higher […]