Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

Since 2005, national greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 10%, and power sector emissions have fallen by 27% even as the economy grew by 25%. While the current Inventory does not include 2019, preliminary energy data available now for 2019 from EIA projects that fossil fuel-CO 2 emissions decreased by approximately 3% from 2018 to 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2016

Renesas Electronics announced the availability of six new intelligent power devices (IPDs) for automotive motor and heater control applications. Previously, most ECUs used relays as the switching elements in their drive circuits, with the average automobile using around 100 relays.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Transmission control systems, for their part, must instantly select the optimal gear ratio to match the driving conditions, which change moment by moment, in order to minimize power loss in the transmission. This contributes to shorter development cycles, even though the Electronic Control Units (ECUs) used in automobiles become more complex.

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