Remove Class Remove Conference Remove Connected Remove Design
article thumbnail

Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

Green Car Congress

Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life. To date, the EMS tool has helped Murphy and HEB achieve more than a 20% increase in range.

Volvo 278
article thumbnail

Sumida introduces two new series of AEC-Q200-qualified power inductors – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

[ad_1] Electronic component provider Sumida is introducing two new series of AEC-Q200-qualified power inductors at the 2024 APEC Power Electronics Conference in Long Beach. The larger DPQ5050/T150 is of similar design, with an inductance value of 10 µH and a saturation current of 112 amps at 20° C. µH to 22 µH.

Power 52
article thumbnail

How This Startup Cut Production Costs of Millimeter Wave Power Amplifiers

Cars That Think

Launched in June 2020, the startup produces affordable systems for wireless connections that deliver optical fiber quality, or what Gamzina calls elvespeed connectivity. She received the award in April at the IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference , in Monterey, Calif. “Dr. She holds three U.S.

Cost Of 89
article thumbnail

Michelin to acquire commercial truck telematics provider NexTraq; pushing to grow its services business

Green Car Congress

Since its inception in 2000, NexTraq has become a leading provider of GPS fleet management solutions for fleets of small commercial vehicles (classes 3‒5) ranging from two to 50 vehicles. NexTraq provides solutions for driver safety, fuel management and enhancing fleet productivity. Leadership in the high-technology materials segment.

article thumbnail

Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

Cars That Think

The faculty [at Georgia Tech] had me design and teach a class in hardware support for operating systems,” he recalls. “I Also known as the Internet worm , it made headlines when it caused a major denial-of-service incident that slowed down or crashed a significant number of the computers connected to the Internet.

Georgia 110
article thumbnail

Containment Dome Lowered in Water

Green Car Congress

The chamber was designed to cap the oil discharge that was a result of the Deepwater Horizon incident. US Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3 rd Class Patrick Kelley. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3 rd Class Patrick Kelley. Earlier post.). . Click to enlarge. . Click to enlarge.

Water 186
article thumbnail

How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

Cars That Think

She had not been exposed to engineering before MIT, but she took a class and discovered her passion. Each code is designed to correspond with a decoding algorithm that can be computationally complex. She has presented at numerous IEEE conferences, and many of her research articles are available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.