Remove Conversion Remove Illinois Remove Industry Remove Volt
article thumbnail

Transphorm to demonstrate 99% efficiency power switching with a 1200V GaN power transistor at ISPSD 2022

Green Car Congress

Partially funded by the ARPA-E CIRCUITS program ( earlier post ), Transphorm is developing the technology for electric vehicle mobility and infrastructure power systems as well as industrial and renewable energy systems. Early results show notably low leakage with a breakdown voltage of greater than 1400 volts. —Dr.

Powered 199
article thumbnail

Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale

Cars That Think

The results are reported in a paper, “Synchronous Electrostatic Machines for Direct Drive Industrial Applications,” to be presented at the 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition , which will be held from 20 to 24 October in Phoenix, Ariz. Another challenge was supplying the 2,000 volts their machine needs to operate.

Motors 117
article thumbnail

How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

Plug-in 41
article thumbnail

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. exceeding the magnetic properties of industrially important. industries, without the need for these costly and scarce. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture.

Energy 294
article thumbnail

Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Plug In Conversions Corp. This also allows a Prius to perform much like the Chevy Volt, but for a much lower cost.”.

Solar 170
article thumbnail

Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

Teslarati

We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. Even so, a new industry is moving forward to exploit the deep sea. We believe this industry poses risks to Tesla now and into the future.

Tesla 118