Green Car Congress
APRIL 7, 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., In its earlier assessment, the team found that the SUGAR Volt concept (which adds an electric battery gas turbine hybrid propulsion system) can reduce fuel burn by greater than 70% and total energy use by 55% when battery energy is included. million, three years.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 7, 2011
The company’s GaN-based power converters are designed with 600 Volt transistors and low loss power diodes, will come in industry-standard packages, and are designed for optimum high-frequency switching, lowest loss and highest efficiency. Perreault, MIT). —Primit Parikh, President of Transphorm. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JULY 25, 2016
An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) volts to 0.24
Green Car Congress
APRIL 22, 2016
The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ 15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. PHEVLERs help support the electric grid.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. Write For GO About Advertise Contact Login Explore GO Media: News & Opinion Family & Lifestyle Business & Technology Gas 2.0 Like this post?
Cars That Think
MARCH 27, 2022
An old-fashioned triode vacuum tube does that using a voltage applied to its grid electrode. Researchers soon constructed what was called core memory from dense grids of magnetic cores. Apollo Guidance Computer were built with core transistor logic, but in 1962 the designers at MIT made a risky switch to integrated circuits.
Revenge of the Electric Car
OCTOBER 23, 2008
GM has been saying for a while now that they had picked their supplier for the LiIon battery in the Volt, but they weren’t prepared to announce who it was. MIT spinoff A123 was a personal favorite, also Germany’s Continental was in the running, but it was LG Chem subsidiary and Detroit based Compact Power, Inc. URL: [link].
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