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Fairchild Launches New Discrete and Bare Die IGBTs for Hybrid and All-Electric Vehicles

Fairchild’s Latest Automotive Innovations Give Automakers and Their Suppliers Multiple Options for Traction Inverters and Other Motor-Driving Components

18 May 2016

Nissan Announce Schemes to ‘revolutionise’ Electric Vehicles into Mobile Storage Devices

Three major announcements from the manufacturer of the world’s No 1 mass market electric car First ever UK trial of electric vehicle owners selling excess energy back to National Grid Launch of domestic ele...

11 May 2016

New Battery Energy Storage Project Could be Used to Power Railways

Engineers have received £1.5million in funding for a new battery energy storage project that could mean more efficient and cheaper trains.

21 Apr 2016

First Step to Prove BYD’s Mature Technology to Provide Reliable Electrified Public Transportation

On March 16, 2016, an 18-meter articulated pure electric BYD bus covered the over 400 km distance between Bogota and Medellin with one single battery charge, in a non-stop test preparation journey of the BYD zero emission bus to initiate Medellin. The topography of Medellin is characterized by frequent and often exceedingly steep slopes, and this successful journey was the first step to prove BYD’s mature technology to provide reliable electrified public transportation.

21 Mar 2016

Scientists Reveal New Way to Make Carbon Neutral and Carbon Negative Electric Vehicles

A multidisciplinary research team have developed a method to produce electric vehicles that are both carbon negative and carbon neutral. This means that the vehicle will be able to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as they are driven.

4 Mar 2016

EPFL Researchers Suggest Storage System to Speed up Charging of Electric Cars

Researchers from EPFL have discovered a solution that will aid in making electric cars competitive, enabling them to be charged as fast as it takes to fill a tank of gas. The solution is an intermediate storage which does not affect the power grid.

22 Jan 2016

New Eindhoven Student Team Aims to Build World's First Formic Acid-Powered Car

Building a car that is powered by formic acid. That is the ambition of Team FAST, a new student team from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

18 Jan 2016

NTNU Researchers Help Develop Smart Grid Solutions for Charging Evs

Norway leads the world in new car sales of electric vehicles, but how will charging all those EVs affect the Norwegian energy supply? Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology are helping to develop Smart Grid solutions that will ease the crunch caused by powering our transportation with electricity.

22 Dec 2015

New European Interoperability Center for Electric Vehicles and Smart Grids Opens in Ispra, Italy

As electric vehicle sales continue to rise around the world, the European Union opened the first European Interoperability Center for Electric Vehicles and Smart Grids last month to make sure all these cars have a standard plug and equipment that can work anywhere.

14 Dec 2015

New BTH Report Shows Sweden Stands in Last Place on Incentives for Electric Vehicles

According to a new report, Sweden is in last place among eight countries when it comes to incentives for electric vehicles. The report is carried out by researchers at Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, in collaboration with researchers at Copenhagen Business School and the company Innoventum.

14 Dec 2015