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VinFast partners with Gotion High-Tech on LFP battery cell R&D

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To reinforce its electrification strategy, VinFast has been fostering collaborations with a number of partners around the world, including those from Israel, Taiwan, the US, etc., In addition, Vingroup has recently established VinES Energy Solutions JSC focusing on research and manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles.

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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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ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Israel-based VisIC Technologies Ltd., 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.

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Israel’s RFISee unveils long-range high resolution 4D imaging radar on a chip

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Israel-based RFISee , a developer of affordable imaging radars for the automotive industry, is unveiling the first Phased Array 4D imaging radar on a chip. The radar’s capabilities are designed to prevent the types of accidents with which many other existing radar systems are unable to deal. RFISee has raised $2.75

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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Mentoring the next generation of power engineers Born in the village of Wuxing in China, Chen and his family moved to Taiwan in 1949 when he was a teenager. After Chen earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1954 from National Taiwan University in Taipei, he joined the Taiwan Power Co.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Over time, as weapons system provokes countermeasures, their designers respond with improvements, and the gold-plating accumulates. Greico, Stimson Center Back in 1981, Israel sent modest contraptions sporting surveillance cameras in its war against Syria, to some effect. says it will defend.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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Once the system was designed, built, and paid for, the cost per shot would be low. General Atomics , a military contractor in San Diego, is also developing a laser of this power for the Army based on what’s known as the distributed-gain design , which has a single aperture. Both systems offer the prospect of being inexpensive to use.

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