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Gogoro Batteries Power 90% of Taiwan’s Electric Scooters

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Best known for the compact battery-swap vending machines placed outside of convenience stores and take-out shops, Gogoro is leading the charge for electric scooter sales in Taiwan — but that’s not the biggest news.

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Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again

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Eighty percent of the world's chips are made in Taiwan, and China has found the choke point of the world economy—those fabs. There's a scramble to build fabs outside Taiwan, but that will take two to three years. I think it is going to be battery power ," he said. But that has suddenly changed.

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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Lu was inspired to conduct research in improving efficiency when he was an undergraduate student at the National Taiwan University , in Taipei, where his studies included courses in algorithms and data structures. “I still do research, of course," Lu notes. "In In fact, I received three research grants last year.”

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VisIC and ZF partner on R&D effort to develop EV inverter based on GaN semiconductor technology; focus on 400V

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D 3 GaN technology has been shown to reduce the power losses by at least 50% while benefiting from the high-yield, low-cost proprietary design of GaN transistors. The inverter—which converts DC power from the traction battery to AC power that drives the motor—is a key part of the electric drive chain.

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