Tyco Electronics Corp. (Menlo Park, CA) announced that Avnet (Phoenix, AZ) will be an authorized distributor for the PolySwitch, Power Switch and SiBar circuit protection components from its Raychem Circuit Protection division in North and South America. Avnet will distribute Raychem Circuit Protection's full line of PolySwitch resettable fuses designed for computers, consumer electronics, automobiles, […]
Catalytica Energy Systems Inc. (Mountain View, CA) reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2001. Revenues for the first quarter of 2001 were $1,446,000, compared with $1,275,000 for the same period of the prior year. Net loss for the quarter was $3,725,000, or a loss of $0.29 per share. The prior year's […]
Exide Technologies (Princeton, NJ) announced that Exide Australia recently earned an "A" rating by Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd. (MMAL). The manufacturing facility won the Supplier Quality Performance (SQP) rating for the period July through December 2000 for the ability to deliver on time and in full, meeting the stringent standards related to defective parts and […]
Millennium Cell Inc. (Eatontown, NJ) announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, PA). Millennium Cell and Air Products are discussing the possibility of entering into a joint research agreement aimed at developing the process for converting sodium borates to sodium borohydride. "Air Products is a […]
Inverpower Controls Ltd. (Canada) announced that it has entered into a 21-day exclusivity arrangement with a publicly-traded company to permit exclusive negotiations towards a possible sale of assets of the business and assumption of agreed-upon trade payables based upon a value of $6.0 million. Terms of any sale will be negotiated by Inverpower, its secured […]
Exide Technologies (Princeton, NJ) has signed a $10 million agreement to be the sole lead-acid battery supplier for the Revolutionary Electric Vehicle Alternative (REVA) car-making project in Bangalore, India. REVA is a joint venture between AEVT and the Maini Group (India). The REVA car, to be launched in June 2001, is claimed to be India's […]
EnerSys Inc. (Reading, PA) announced that it has reduced lead time for its DDS VRLA batteries to two weeks or less, with the launch of its SureShip program. The DDS batteries are available with individual cell sizes up to 2000Ah and are suitable for wireless, microwave, central office and other telecommunications applications. The SureShip program […]
Fuel Cell Technologies Corp. (FCT, Canada) has passed another milestone in the development of its high-endurance energy system that will power the Atlantic Layer Tracking Experiment (ALTEX) Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) under the Arctic ice cap. The FCT system powered the ALTEX AUV for more than 78 hours off the coast of California, completing numerous […]
Hydro-Québec (Canada) has signed an agreement with Kerr McGee Chemical LLC (Oklahoma City, OK) to develop and market AVESTOR Corp.'s (Canada) lithium-metal-polymer battery (LMP). The announcement was made near the future site of a new battery plant by Bernard Landry, premier of Quebec, André Caillé, president and CEO of Hydro-Québec, and Luke Corbett, chairman and […]
Zapworld.Com (Sebastopol, CA) has asked its shareholders to approve a name change from Zapworld.Com to ZAP. According to the company, ZAP is an acronym for Zero Air Pollution, and is more in line with the company's recently announced repositioning plans. The company is shifting from an electric scooter company to a more comprehensive marketer and […]
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, TX) announced the new TPS6030x family of low-power dc/dc converters. These devices are claimed to be the first single-cell charge pumps in the industry to feature a flexible conversion ratio that prolongs battery life. Applications that can benefit from the new charge pumps' space savings and power efficiency include pagers, […]
MGE UPS Systems (Costa Mesa, CA) has introduced new features to its Galaxy 3000 UPS. The online three-phase UPS offers scalable power protection from 10 to 30kVA and utilizes MGE's ultra-high availability topology to ensure that all critical loads are protected. The Galaxy 3000 supports 10 to 40 network servers. To increase battery efficiency, the […]
NESS Corp. (Korea) announced the introduction of its 2.3V ultracapacitor technology for fuel-cell applications. The new 2,500F ultracapacitor exhibits energy densitites of...
Metallic Power (Carlsbad, CA) announced that it has shipped the first of its 1.5kW portable power sources for test and evaluation by a number of the firm's collaborators. One of the units was delivered to Briggs and Stratton Corp. (Milwaukee, WI). The two companies are working together to evaluate a fuel cell power source. Throughout […]
AER Energy Resources Inc. (Atlanta, GA) announced that its new model 4V04 primary zinc-air battery prototype is available for sampling to battery...