ZAP (Sebastopol, CA) announced its new LEPTON electric scooter, a new moped-class scooter imported from Italy that incorporates classic Italian styling with...
SatCon Technology Corp. (Cambridge, MA) announced that it has delivered four digital power control and conversion systems that were installed and operationally tested in the new Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Targeting Vehicle (RST-V) being developed for the US Marine Corps. The SatCon digital power conversion and control systems performed to specification and provided peak power of […]
Turbo Switchers (Cape Town, South Africa) introduced the TD-000, the first of its new Turbodriver line of 5V powered MOSFET/IGBT resonant gate drivers. The TD-000 is a single-channel, non-inverting driver that operates from a 5V supply, but drives the MOSFET gate between -10V/+15V, and extremely fast switching times are obtained. The TD-000 utilizes a patent-pending […]
Thor Industries Inc. (Jackson Center, OH) announced sales and net income for the quarter and year ended July 31, 2001. Net income in the quarter was $8.4 million versus $9.7 million in the prior year. EPS in the quarter were $0.71 versus $0.80 last year. Net income for the year was $26.7 million compared to […]
Cooper Electronic Technologies (Boynton Beach, FL) announced its new Coiltronics brand of UNI-PAC inductors, which are well suited for a variety of...
Hydrogenics Corp. (Mississauga, Ontario) announced that Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Japan) has selected Hydrogenics' FCATS test systems to support expanding fuel cell research activities at the Nissan Research Center in Kanagawa, Japan. This first-time order totals approximately CDN$1.1 million. Hydrogenics' Japan branch office in Tokyo has been expanded to enable after-sales service for regional customers. […]
The shareholders of Exide Technologies (Princeton, NJ) approved three proposals at the company's annual meeting. The shareholders elected Francois J. Castaing, Rodney L. Chadwick, John A. James, Robert A. Lutz, Heinrich Meyr, Jody G. Miller and Craig H. Muhlhauser to the company's board of directors. These directors will serve until the 2002 annual meeting of […]
Chemical engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a prototype fuel cell that runs on a readily available liquid fuel source, in this case ordinary diesel fuel. The Penn fuel cell is the first to run directly on hydrocarbons, without requiring complicated reforming into hydrogen either within the device itself or at specialized filling […]
Vishay Intertechnology Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced a new series of higher-voltage n-channel power MOSFETs, the first in the PowerPAK SO-8 to...
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) announced its new low-profile E Core Series ferrite planar cores specifically designed for use in switch-mode power...
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced its new TPS310x family of supervisory ICs, which monitor supply voltages from 0.55V to 3.3V...
Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, BC) announced that it signed a $22.0 million, three-year deal with Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, MI) to supply Ford with Mark 900 Series fuel cell modules and engineering support. "We intend to launch our first commercial fuel cell vehicle in 2004 and this agreement with Ballard will enable us to […]
Allied Business Intelligence Inc. (ABI, Oyster Bay, NY) has rescheduled its conference, "Fuel Cell Dynamics: Reality, Not Hype", to February 6-7, 2002, at the Marriott Marquis in New York. The conference theme remains the same — to bring the stationary, portable and automotive fuel cell players together to examine the evolving industry. The leading industry […]
Methanex Corp. (Canada), Mitsubishi and Mitsui are pleased to announce that Marubeni Corp. (Vancouver) has joined the Alliance to promote the introduction...
Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. (Tustin, CA), formerly RadioTower.com Inc., completed the acquisition of the exclusive worldwide license for fuel cell technology for use in all transportation applications from Fullerene USA Inc. Fullerene received 30.1 million restricted shares of RadioTower's common stock in exchange for the license, representing 51.1 percent of the outstanding shares, bringing total […]