Power Quality Protection

Batteries and Portable Power

Motorola Labs Reports Battery Breakthrough

Motorola (Schaumburg, IL) claims it has reached another milestone in its development of a new, miniature fuel cell for hand-held phones, wireless phones and other Internet devices. The fuel cells being developed will provide more power for longer periods of time than current batteries, the company said. That, in turn, will enable not only longer […]

Batteries and Portable Power

David Nord Appointed Vice President Controller of UTC

David G. Nord was recently named the vice president controller for the United Technologies Corp. (UTC, Hartford, CT). He will report to CFO David FitzPatrick. Nord has been UTC's acting controller since November 1999. He joined UTC in 1996 as assistant controller, performing financial reporting and accounting.Before joining UTC, Nord had been a corporate controller […]

Communications Power

Eltek Pacific To Supply Telecom Power Systems to Silcar

Eltek Pacific Pty Ltd. (Sydney, Australia), a subsidiary of Eltek ASA (Drammen, Norway), was awarded a frame agreement to supply telecom power systems to Silcar (Australia). The frame agreement could generate revenues of AUD$100.0 million over a five-year period. The contract constitutes part of a delivery by Silcar to a major telecommunications carrier in Australia, […]

Automotive Electronics

Merrifield & Meldrum Join Darnell's Board

Darnell.Com Inc. (Corona, CA) announced the appointments of Dr. D. Bruce Merrifield and John C. Meldrum to the company's Board of Directors. Dr. Merrifield and Mr. Meldrum are the first outside directors appointed to the board.Dr. Merrifield is president and CEO of the Pridco Management Company (Washington, DC). He is Professor Emeritus of the Wharton […]

Communications Power

Pulizzi Engineering Announces the Release of the TPC884-I Power-Distribution System

Pulizzi Engineering Inc. (Santa Ana, CA) announced the release of the TPC884-I international power-distribution system with cTUVus agency approval and the CE mark. The technology of the TPC884-I provides high-current, full-load capacity of 16A at either 110Vac to 125Vac or 200Vac to 240Vac. The built-in voltage selection switch allows the user to select the operating […]

Automotive Electronics

PowerCache Announces Availability of the New PC100 Ultracapacitor

PowerCache (San Diego, CA), a Maxwell Technologies company, announced the availability of the PC100, a 100-farad ultracapacitor. PowerCache claims that the new PC100 can increase battery operating life while reducing battery size in automatic meter readers; automotive applications; black box data recorders for commercial and military aviation; backup power for UPS applications; or any other […]

Automotive Electronics

EVictory Sets Guinness Distance Record

The EVictory, a fuel-cell-powered electric vehicle developed by EVonyx Inc. (Elmsford, NY), has been returned to New York after setting a new Guinness distance record for the longest run on a single charge by a modified production vehicle powered by a fuel cell.The car traveled 217 miles from West Orange, NJ, to Howard, PA, without […]

Power Quality

ABB Electricity Metering Announces New Power Quality and Outage Event Manager

ABB Electricity Metering (Zurich, Switzerland) announces its new Power Quality and Outage Event Manager for ABB's EnergyAxis AMR Server. As part of the ABB EnergyAxis Server, the Power Quality and Outage Event Manager reads power outage, outage restoration and power-quality information from the meter on request, on a scheduled basis or during an alarm call-in. […]

Automotive Electronics

EAC Begins Production of Silver Volt SUV

The Electric Auto Corp. (EAC, Ft. Lauderdale, FL) announced that it plans to start production in California of a full-performance, zero-emission, electric "Silver Volt" Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) equipped with its new Apollo fuel cell and lead-cobalt battery, which will sell at about the same price as today's gas-powered SUV.The fuel cell being used is […]

Batteries and Portable Power

Global Thermoelectric SFP Results

Global Thermoelectric Inc. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has announced that it has obtained receipts for its final Short Form Prospectus (SFP) dated September 22, 2000. Pursuant to the previously announced special warrants financing, which closed on August 22, 2000, the company issued nearly three million special warrants priced at $34.50 each for net proceeds of $94.6 […]

Communications Power

Innovatec Signs Purchase Agreement With SCE&G

Innovatec Communications LLC (Milwaukee, WI) announced that it has signed a purchase and supply agreement with the South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G, Columbia, SC), the largest subsidiary of SCANA Corporation. The agreement calls for the use of Innova-tec's AxisPath fixed wireless network in targeted sections of SCE&G's service territory in early 2001.The system […]

Automotive Electronics

Electric Fuel & German Govt. Undertake EV Development Program

Electric Fuel Corporation (Iselin, NJ) announced that the German government has issued a contract to undertake a cooperative all-electric hybrid vehicle development and demonstration program in Germany. A consortium comprised of Electric Fuel's Electrical Vehicle Division, and several major German industrial firms and academic institutions will implement the program, announced in January 2000. The four-year […]

Batteries and Portable Power

IdaTech To Design & Produce 50 Beta Fuel Cell Systems For Testing

IdaTech (Bend, OR), a part of IDACORP, recently announced that it has received official notice from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA, Portland, OR) to proceed with the design and production of the first block of 50 beta fuel cell systems for testing in 2001. The announcement comes at the completion of three months of field […]

Automotive Electronics

Texaco and ECD Form Fuel Cell Joint Venture

Texaco Energy Systems Inc. (TESI, White Plains, NY) and Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Troy, MI) announced the formation of Texaco Ovonic Fuel Cell Company LLC, a fifty-fifty joint venture to further develop and advance the commercialization of the Ovonic Regenerative Fuel Cell.Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, ECD will provide proprietary technology […]

Motion Control

American Superconductor Reports Q3 2001 Results

American Superconductor Corp. (Westborough, MA) reported that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2001 ended December 31, 2000, were $5.6 million compared with $5.0 million recorded in the same period last year. Revenues for the third quarter ended December 31, 2000, included $3.5 million in sales of the company's Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage products, […]