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Wolfspeed wins 2016 R&D 100 Award for wide bandgap underhood inverter for HEVs/EVs

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taken from the vehicle’s battery pack), and through precise switching of the inverter’s power semiconductor devices using space-vector pulse-width modulation, synthesizes a balanced set of three-phase voltages having a specific amplitude and frequency for any given instant of time. —John Palmour, Wolfspeed’s chief technology officer.

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Lux: future use of wide bandgap materials in power electronics will reduce EV cost

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Using wide bandgap (WBG) materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)s for power electronics can improve efficiency and thereby reduce the high cost of battery packs, according to a new report from Lux Research. SiC ahead in road to commercialization. eV (electronVolt); silicon carbide (SiC) has a bandgap of 3.3

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ARRA Funding for Plug Power and Customers Will Result in Deployment of More Than 304 Fuel Cell Drive Units for Lift Trucks

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Replacing lead acid batteries in electric lift trucks, these product installations will allow for fleet conversions within warehouses and distribution centers in Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

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Nevada, which has the only commercial U.S. soils, how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to process it into a form usable by manufacturers. states, legal experts, politicians, landowners, investors, royalty firms, industry executives and consultants.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters. Marquette University. Marquette University will develop a small, compact, lightweight, and efficient 1 MW battery charger for electric vehicles. Northeastern University.

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