PennWell Corp. (Tulsa, OK) is presenting the first annual Fuel Cell Technology Institute in conjunction with the National Fuel Cell Research Center...
Zinc Matrix Power Inc. (Santa Barbara, CA) announced its new Silver Polymer batteries, which are in routine use on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor. The rechargeable batteries allow hand-held wireless-network-connected trading computers to run all day. In addition to their use in Chicago, the batteries are in pilot testing by a brokerage on the […]
Students at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) have developed an electric car that costs about one cent per kilometer to run. Named...
Electric Fuel Corp. (New York, NY) announced that its new Instant Power Charger is now being released for the latest generation of...
Texas Instruments (TI, Dallas, TX) announced the bq2057 Series of single- or two-cell lithium-ion and lithium-polymer low-dropout linear charge management ICs. TI claims that the new products combine high-accuracy current and voltage regulation for maximum-capacity battery conditioning, temperature monitoring, charger termination, charge-status indication and AutoComp charge-rate compensation in a single eight-pin IC. The bq2057 enables […]
General Motors Corp. (GM, Detroit, MI) and General Hydrogen Corp. (Canada) announced a 25-year collaboration intended to accelerate the spread of a hydrogen infrastructure, and to speed the introduction of fuel cell vehicles into markets in North America, Europe, Asia and emerging economies. The strategic alliance will focus on several key areas, including hydrogen storage, […]
Inverpower Controls Ltd. (Canada) reported the company's operating results for the third quarter of fiscal 2001 ending April 29, 2001. Revenues were $1.1 million, compared to revenues of $2.7 in the prior year. Corresponding with the revenue volume, the company's orders backlog at the end of the third quarter was approximately $2.2 million, an increase […]
PowerCache (San Diego, CA), a part of Maxwell Technologies' (San Diego, CA) electronic components group, announced that it has received a purchase...
AVX Corp. (Myrtle Beach, SC) announced that it has received the Partners in Performance award from Celestica Inc. (Canada). AVX claims that it is the only capacitor supplier in the industry to receive this award three years in a row. The honors were distributed to select suppliers at Celestica's annual Global Supplier Awards in Toronto. […]
Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) recently released the bq2000T, a programmable, monolithic IC for fast-charge management of nickel cadmium (NiCd), nickel metal-hydride (NiMH) or lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in single- or multi-chemistry applications. After detecting battery chemistry, the bq2000T is designed to determine optimal charging and termination algorithms to allow accurate and safe termination of fast charge, […]
FuelCell Energy Inc. (Danbury, CT) announced the closing of its public offering of 3.45 million shares of common stock at $70 per share. Net proceeds to the company were $241.5 million. FuelCell Energy intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to expand manufacturing equipment and facilities to support commercialization activities, and for general […]
Shell Hydrogen US, a division of Shell Oil Products Co. (Shell, Netherlands), and International Fuel Cells (South Windsor, CT), a unit of United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, CT), announced the formation of HydrogenSource LLC (South Windsor, CT). The fifty-fifty joint venture plans to develop, manufacture and sell fuel processors and hydrogen generation systems for emerging fuel […]
Energy Ventures Inc. (EVI, Canada) and the Alberta Research Council Inc. (ARC, Canada) have entered into a joint-development agreement to create commercial prototypes utilizing EVI's direct methanol fuel cell technology. Under the agreement, EVI and ARC will utilize ARC's premises in Canada. In addition, ARC will invest up to $3.0 million in EVI through the […]
H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ) announced the appointment of Dudley Wass to the position of COO. As COO, Wass will be primarily responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations of the company as it moves toward commercialization of its PEM fuel cell systems. Wass joins H Power from Visteon Corp. (Dearborn, MI), where he served as […]
Trimol Group Inc. (New York, NY) announced that it has opened its International Fuel Cell Research and Development Center in collaboration with Aluminum Power Inc. (Canada). The center is dedicated to the continued development of its aluminum-air fuel cell technology, which Trimol has licensed from Aluminum Power for use in portable consumer electronics. The new […]