Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We will start by talking about limits of energy density of batteries and ask why the development of batteries has not proceeded as well as in, say, semiconductors (short answer: moving electrons is one thing, reacting them is a whole other story). Tags: Brief.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The first thing that jumps out is that Spectrum readers love good quality audio, but unlike some audiophiles, they don’t see an exorbitant price tag or voodoo components as a badge of honor. With just a bit of know-how applied in the right way, the world becomes a bit more interesting.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

The new module contains the complete power semiconductor requirement of a 15 to 20 kW motor drive application in one package. Tags: Brief. The 80 Ampere/1200 Volt rated IGBT die fits in the industry standard E3-pack which integrates the Converter, Inverter and Brake stages into one CBI outline.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

In Reutlingen, we are investing some 600 million euros (US$879 million) in the construction of a new semiconductor manufacturing facility and a testing center. These might include, for example, experiments in semiconductor manufacturing and the use of laboratory facilities. Tags: Power Electronics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

He subsequently moved to Motorola Semiconductor as an engineer and head of strategy for the automotive industry. Tags: Brief. Karl-Thomas Neumann studied electrical engineering at the universities of Dortmund and Duisburg and was awarded his doctorate in this discipline.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2010

As Valeo had no in-house microelectronics capacity, it decided to set up a EUREKA project with two microelectronics partners: ON Semiconductors—formerly AMI Semiconductors—in Belgium for the two application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) controlling and driving the system; and Freescale in France for the power-switching transistors.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

The scientists at Heidelberg University are cooperating with BASF experts headed by Dr. Jan Schoeneboom to develop an air-and light-stable combination of dyes and functionalized nanoscale semiconductor particles. Tags: Catalysts Methanol Solar. Photocatalysis is used to convert the carbon dioxide together with water into methanol.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies, together with the German automotive supplier Hella, has developed innovative radio-frequency components for a 24 GHz radar sensor which reliably monitors the blind spot in the car’s rear section (Blind Spot Detection). The MMICs are tagged. Block diagram for 24 GHz radar system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

In a paper presented in May at the CS Mantech (Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) conference, Tsutomu Uesugi and Tetsu Kachi from Toyota noted that: performance of the GaN power device has been progressing rapidly. Tags: Power Electronics. The partners forsee an initial first year investment of ¥8 billion (US$83 million).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

that delivers electronic solutions to the automotive market, and Semikron, a provider of power semiconductor components and systems, are forming a 50/50 joint venture to develop and produce power electronics for future electric and hybrid vehicle applications. Tags: Power Electronics. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The interface between the semiconductor and the nanotubes would separate the electron from the hole, with electrons being collected at one electrode touching the inner semiconductor, and holes collected at an electrode touching the nanotubes. Tags: Brief. This system would then generate electric current. Nature Materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2010

China-based Foton Motor and Freescale Semiconductor have established the Foton-Freescale Automotive Joint Lab. Tags: China Electric (Battery) Hybrids Power Electronics. The lab is Foton Motor’s first formal cooperation project in automotive electronics.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Intersil Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog, mixed signal and power management semiconductors, introduced a system solution for hybrid and electric vehicle (HEV/EV) battery management control, featuring an automotive-grade Li-Ion battery management system and safety monitor. ISL78600 Management System.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

All currently used thermoelectrics are semiconductors, so our development of polymer-based materials is novel. Tags: Brief. State-of-the-art thermoelectric materials are based on bismuth telluride, which is relatively toxic and contains some of the rarest elements on earth.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2009

SiC power electronics can operate at higher temperatures, power densities and frequencies than conventional silicon semiconductors, resulting in smaller, lighter, and simpler electrical systems—especially of benefit for hybrid and electric vehicles. Tags: Brief. In 2008 the SiC device market reached $23M.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

Prior AIST work had shown that a WO 3 semiconductor photocatalyst can absorb visible light and that its performance in environmental cleanup processes is significantly better than that of conventional TiO 2 -based photocatalysts when a copper promoter or a palladium promoter is supported on the surface of the photocatalyst.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 30, 2010

Foton Motor, of China, and Freescale Semiconductor have joined forces to create the Foton-Freescale Automotive Joint Lab with the aim of exploring joint development efforts in areas including electric and hybrid vehicles and relevant electronic control technology.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The current semiconductor supply squeeze meant I couldn't find any in stock online. Eliminating those installation headaches would be worth the price tag alone. The Turing Pi provides centralized power and a built-in Ethernet switch to connect the modules. Eventually I tracked five down at a local Micro Center.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2009

Utilizing its simultaneous brazing technology, TIC now mounts the power semiconductors directly onto the cooling device, reducing the thermal resistance to two-thirds of the prior level. Tags: Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Plug-ins Vehicle Systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

Tags: Brief. The workshop will have Key Principal Investigators summarize their work. Project Engineers on the DOE/VC TEG and TE HVAC efforts will provide a summary of their design efforts. DOE is also inviting representatives from Europe and Asia to provide a summary of their thermoelectric activities.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

IMEC is inviting both integrated device manufacturers and companies in the compound semiconductor industry to join the program. Tags: Brief. IMEC is an independent research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

Working with the semiconductor zinc selenide, they simulated the introduction of two dilute concentrations of oxygen atoms (3.125% and 6.25% respectively) to create model HMAs. Tags: Thermoelectrics. In both cases, the oxygen impurities were shown to induce peaks in the electronic density of states above the conduction band minimum.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

offers a wide range of micro-channel hydrogen purifier capacities for semiconductor and photovoltaic device manufacturing, materials processing, instrumentation and laboratory use. Tags: Brief. The impurities continue to move through the tubing to eventually exit out of the purifier through the bleed port. Power+Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

The CrossBeam workstation, already applied in the material, life sciences, and semiconductor industries, generates high-resolution 3D images that are used to create the Ingrains’s vRock (a complete digital capture of the actual fabric of the original rock sample) digital reservoir rocks from shale rock samples. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

With the micro-inverters, heat is dissipated over a larger area rather than concentrated in a few very large semiconductors, the company says. Tags: Electric (Battery) Motors Vehicle Systems. Each sub-motor contains an embedded processor with control software that communicates with the System ECU (SECU). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

More specifically, it will utilize an advanced Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor material grown on inexpensive silicon to form high voltage switches. Tags: ARPA-E Power Electronics. This compact battery charger will support two-way power flow enabling the electrical grid to access the vehicle’s battery.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

While many semiconductor materials can produce an electric potential in response to heat, that effect is very weak in carbon. Tags: Nanotech Power Generation. The amount of power released, he says, is much greater than that predicted by thermoelectric calculations. There’s something else happening here ,” he says. “ Nature Materials.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

In the new module however, fullerone is used as an n-type of semiconductor and Phthalocyanine as a p-type. The new module relies on laser-scribing technology on a glass substrate with organic semiconductor materials that are deposited on to the substrate and then divided into several cells with the laser.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2009

Having already acquired BluWav Systems LLC, a developer and supplier of controls, motors and energy-management systems, it has now formed a joint venture with Semikron, a provider of power semiconductor components and systems to develop and produce power electronics for both electric and hybrid vehicle applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Direct sources of gaseous HCl include garbage burning, incineration of municipal and medical wastes, burning of biomass, agricultural products and coal, and industrial processes, e.g., semiconductor and petroleum manufacturing. Tags: Emissions. Benny Gerber, and Barbara J. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.0904195106. 0904195106.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

Semiconductors—one p-type and one n-type semiconductor—can be used at each junction in lieu of dissimilar metal conductors to produce the thermoelectric effect. Tags: Engines Hybrids Thermoelectrics Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery. gas-electric hybrid vehicle ,” conclude the authors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Tags: Materials Transmissions Vehicle Systems. The relationship with Corus Engineering Steels reaches back to the early 1990s with the introduction of the first bespoke steel by Xtrac (XVAR1), a vacuum arc re-melted version of the primary gear steel (En36C) then used in motorsport applications.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Steve Nelson, global manager of automotive marketing at Freescale Semiconductor. Tags: Emissions Engines Fuel Efficiency. Freescale has long been a pioneer in advanced engine technology for automobiles, and our new platform solution is an important step on the path to greener small engines. A typical). A typical). A typical).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

The company in March announced multiple price increases including its most affordable electric car, the Model 3 RWD—once touted at $35K—now has an eye-popping price tag of $46,990. We’ll get the semiconductors,” Farley said. Tesla isn’t the only EV manufacturer facing these hurdles. The issue [now] is batteries.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Five vehicle projects will benefit – these are: Advanced power semiconductor and packaging: A grant of $6,733,383 has been given to Delphi Automotive and International Rectifier to work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to bring a new power electronics technology to the prototype stage.

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Teslarati

MARCH 25, 2022

The $2,000 credit was taken away from the Model 3 when it went over the $45,000 MSRP cap the organization has for cars that rolled out in February, as the Model Y’s over $60,000 price tag disqualifies it for the credit due to a price threshold on SUVs and crossovers. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

However, critics point out that the money appears to be split among already established names and leaders in the field and that battery technology has not improved at the rate of other technologies such as semiconductors and photovoltaics. Tags: Hybrid cars Lithium-ion batteries The Green Piece green piece Vauxhall Ampera.

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