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Gogoro Batteries Power 90% of Taiwan’s Electric Scooters

CleanTechnica EVs

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

Cars That Think

You can't get a Ford F150 [truck], the most popular vehicle in U.S., 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. But that has suddenly changed.

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

Cars That Think

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

Green Car Congress

The focus of the joint efforts will be on 400-Volt driveline applications, covering the largest segment of the electric vehicle market. Our partnership with ZF for the development of gallium nitride-based power inverters in electric vehicles illustrates the break-through of gallium nitride technology in the automotive industry.

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