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Nissan to launch bi-directional charging for V2G first in the UK

Nissan to launch bi-directional charging for V2G first in the UK

Nissan is planning to launch affordable bi-directional charging on selected electric vehicles in 2026 for vehicle to grid (V2G) applications starting in the UK.The Nissan Leaf had bi-directional charging and has been a key electric vehicle for testing V2G technology in over...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Portable test chassis for VNX+

Portable test chassis for VNX+

Elma Electronic has released a portable development chassis that accelerates the development and testing of VNX+ plugin cards (PICs).The VNX+ standard defines an extremely compact footprint that reduces per-slot size by up to 70% over 3U VPX, making it ideal for space constrained...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Battery prices set to fall to $80/kWh by 2026

Battery prices set to fall to $80/kWh by 2026

Research by Goldman Sachs is predicting the cost of EV batteries will fall to 480 per kilowatt hour in the next two years.Global average battery prices declined from $153 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in 2022 to $149 in 2023, and Goldman Sachs Research...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Large area fingerprint sensors for automotive designs

Large area fingerprint sensors for automotive designs

Infineon Technologies has launched two new automotive-qualified fingerprint sensors optimized for its Traveo T2G microcontroller family.The sensors offer fingerprint identification and authentication capabilities for in-vehicle personalization and payment authentication, such as charging, parking or other services, as well as for authentication and...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Analog Devices launches first embedded software tool suite

Analog Devices launches first embedded software tool suite

Analog Devices (ADI) has launched its first developer portal with a suite of tools for developing embedded edge applications.CodeFusion Studio is an embedded software development environment based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio and is the first fully integrated suite of software and security...

Published on: October 11, 2024

IEDM: CFETs make progress at 5nm and 7angstrom

IEDM: CFETs make progress at 5nm and 7angstrom

Researchers from TSMC, IMEC, IBM and Samsung are all due to report on progress vertically-stacked complementary field effect transistors (CFETs) at this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) coming up in December, in San Francisco.Engineers from foundry TSMC have a paper on...

Published on: October 11, 2024

125 V high-side gate driver protects battery equipment

125 V high-side gate driver protects battery equipment

Infineon Technologies has introduced a 125V high-side gate driver designed to protect battery-powered applications such as cordless power tools, robotics, e-bikes, and vacuum cleaners in the event of a fault.The Infineon 125V EiceDRIVER 1EDL8011 gate driver provides fast turn-on and turn-off of...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Infineon and AWL-Electricity to improve wireless power with GaN

Infineon and AWL-Electricity to improve wireless power with GaN

Infineon Technologies AG has announced a partnership with Canada-based AWL-Electricity to provide cutting-edge gallium nitride (GaN) technology for use in AWL-E’s innovative MHz resonant capacitive coupling power transfer system, achieving industry-benchmark wireless power efficiencies.Infineon provide AWL-E with the CoolGaN™ GS61008P power transistor...

Published on: October 11, 2024

Your old car can be your new car!

Your old car can be your new car!

TU/e students develop sustainable car from which four times more material can be reused in new cars 

Published on: October 11, 2024

PICMG looks to future of InterEdge for industrial automation

PICMG looks to future of InterEdge for industrial automation

PICMG has formed a technical working group to take its adoption of the InterEdge forward for Distributed Control SystemsThe InterEdge 1.1 Technical Working Group (TWG) at PICMG will shape future open hardware technologies throughout the process industries as an alternative to industrial...

Published on: October 11, 2024