ABB today announced that it supports the new Combined Charging System (CCS) standard for electrical vehicles (EV) with the expansion of its...
Absopulse Electronics‘ BCP 130-PEL heavy-duty switch-mode battery charger was designed for charging an external 100Ah/12V (10-cell) Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery in...
During this week’s Strategies in Light event, Ireland-based fabless company Ikon Semiconductor, will debut its digital controller Integrated Circuit (IC) technology for...
Today at Strategies in Light, Infineon Technologies AG introduced two new 60V dc-dc LED drivers that offer excellent power conversion efficiency, benchmark current accuracy that helps assure constant light output, and first-in-the-industry adjustable over-temperature protection that protects light elements from damage through overheating. The new ILD6070/ILD6150 drivers give lighting manufacturers the flexibility to produce multiple […]
Toshiba Electronics Europe (TEE) has announced a photocoupler that will reduce PCB space and power consumption in IGBT and MOSFET designs that...
Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. announced today that it has shipped its first energy storage inverters to prospective channel partners in Germany and the United States. The inverters will demonstrate the value of the company’s technology in enabling the integration of high-efficiency battery technologies in smart-grid and micro-grid applications. Michael Carten, CEO of Sustainable Energy commented: […]
Ericsson Power Modules has launched a digitally-controlled Advanced Bus Converter (ABC) specifically aimed at powering Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) and...
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman identified the origin of the Jan. 7 battery fire that occurred on a...
LEM has decided to establish a new low-cost production plant in Sofia, Bulgaria. LEM expects to ramp up production in Bulgaria beginning in October 2013. The company intends to invest CHF 2 million into the new site. The goal of LEM Bulgaria is to diversify LEM's low-cost production and increase production capacity close to its […]
Following the decision by Better Place to focus on delivering on its strategy in Denmark and Israel, where the complete infrastructure is in place and commercial operations are fully underway, consultations are underway with a view to securing an orderly wind-down of its non-core activities in North America and limiting any further investment in Australia […]
Pepperl+Fuchs, Inc. has added the M-LB Series Surge Protection Barriers. The modular M-LB series fits various mains configurations and protects 115/230 V...
On 1st of January 2013 Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. joined the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP). For Würth Elektronik eiSos this is a step towards a wide product range of transmitter and receiver coils for wireless power transfer. Würth Elektronik eiSos will continue to develop and provide coils in accordance with the QI […]
GreenPocket GmbH and ZyXEL Communications Corp. announced the immediate launch of their smart home cooperation. At this year’s E-world (5th-7th February in Essen) GreenPocket will be premiering its smart home solution with ZyXEL’s SHG3305 Smart Home Service Gateway. Coinciding with the E-world 2013, ZyXEL and GreenPocket have announced the launch of their Smart Home cooperation. […]
Energy consulting and testing & certification company DNV KEMA has successfully conducted a witness type test in China for C-EPRI Electric Power Engineering Co., Ltd (C-EPRI). A celebration ceremony was held at C-EPRI in Beijing to commemorate that its self-developed prototype ±320kV/1,000MW, 1,563A IGBT valves passed DNV KEMA’s witness type test according to the IEC […]
KEMET Corporation and NEC TOKIN Corporation have closed the first step in establishing an alliance with the completion of a capital injection of USD 50 million (approximately JPY 4.4 billion) by KEMET Electronics Corporation, KEMET’s wholly-owned subsidiary (collectively with KEMET Corporation, into NEC TOKIN. KEMET and NEC TOKIN entered into definitive agreements on this alliance […]