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How Multiphysics Simulation Can Analyze Electronics Cooling Problems

Cars That Think

Engineers that design electronics face significant thermal management challenges, and the number of applications that require thermal management continues to grow. Cellphones, data centers, home electronics, telecommunication, and the electrical grid use electronic components that require thermal management. Senior Engineer.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. Electric motors are generally three times more energy efficient than combustion engines.

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Greentech Media | The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

by: Michael Kanellos April 20, 2009 A 1/10th size scale prototype of an electric vehicle powered by Aduras drive train. Technically, buses based on the MESA will be serial hybrids, similar to the Chevy Volt , because they will drive on electricity but use a gas generator to recharge. For a car, it sounds impressive.

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Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

My sojourn from grease monkey to EV advocate By TERESA PORTER; PRESIDENT, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. I’m probably the last person you’d expect to be passionate about electric vehicles (EVs). I spent years in blissful blindness, never thinking about tailpipe emissions unless I was trying to tune an engine.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD’s conventional gas-powered cars are selling well these days in China, and his electric plug-in electric model looks like it will come to market with a longer range and a lower sticker price than the new Toyota Prius much-hyped Chevy Volt. BYD’s engineering prowess. Youre already getting our newsletter.

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