Electric Vehicles
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High-Performance Full Silicon Carbide MOSFET Module Solutions for Charging Electric Vehicles Enhancing the range of products suitable for the EV market, On Semiconductor has released a pair of new 1200 V full silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET 2-PACK modules. Configured as a 2-PACK half-bridge, the NXH010P120MNF1 module is a 10 mohm module that comes housed in an F1 package and the NXH006P120MNF2 module is a 6 mohm module that comes in an F2 package.… |
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Compact Leakage Current Sensor to Make Charging Infrastructure More Affordable, Safer, and Reliable To meet market demand for a residential and commercial EV charging station, LEM has introduced a compact leakage current sensor, CDSR that will make charging infrastructure more affordable, safer, and reliable for the future. This new sensor is based on open-loop Fluxgate Technology developed by the experienced LEM Geneva R&D team to ensure the reduction in CO2 … |
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What is Beyond Lithium-ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles – Scalable and Potential Alternatives for Clean Energy With the ever-increasing consumption of fossil fuels, the governments of various countries are taking steps towards the electrification of vehicles. Last year, the Government of the UK said that it would ban the sales of new cars and vans powered by diesel and petrol by 2030. Despite efforts being made for the decisive shift away from the internal combustion engine what… |
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1200V αSiC MOSFETs to Meet High Efficiency and Reliability Requirements of Electric Vehicle Applications Alpha and Omega Semiconductor have collaboratively come up with AEC-Q101 qualified 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) αSiC MOSFETs, AOM033V120X2Q in an optimized TO-247-4L package. These new automotive-grade αSiC MOSFETs have been specifically designed to reduce the system’s size and weight while increasing range and enabling significantly faster-charging speeds. The devices… |
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New Mobile Charging Robots can Navigate to your parked Electric Vehicles and Charge it Autonomously With Electric Vehicles becoming increasingly common and affordable, companies across the world have begun turning their attention towards setting up EV charging infrastructure and developing newer, faster, and efficient methods to charges these EVs. Lately, Volkswagen has given us a first glimpse of the prototypes of its ‘mobile charging robot’ that can be used for fully… |
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Challenges and Opportunities in Setting up an Electric Vehicle Charging Station Tesla, a leading Electric Vehicle manufacturer recently announced its Q2 2020 financial results by delivering a profit despite the current global pandemic situation, making it one of the most valuable company ahead of Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors, etc. Citing this, CEO of Volkswagen, Herbert Diess quoted on LinkedIn that “In 5 to 10 years, the most valuable company in… |
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ESSPOWERING the World With Energy Storage Technology What if we could bring not only energy but affordable energy, to the parts of the world that needed it most? It’s a question that’s often been asked about the developing world, where power grids are still in their adolescence. As a result, blackouts, brownouts, and dangerous energy shortages are natural byproducts of an inability to store power and regulate its use during… |
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AEC-Q101 Qualified 700 and 1200V Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky Barrier Diodes for High System Efficiency and Reliability in Electric Vehicles Microchip Technology aims to provide automotive solutions to help designers and developers in easy transition to SiC while minimizing the risk of quality, supply, and support challenges. With this aim in mind, the company is here with yet another smart device that caters to the needs of the automotive industry. The company has released the AEC-Q101-… |
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Battery Management IC with UART Interface for Sensing and Cell Balancing Infineon Technologies AG has expanded its product offering for Battery Management System (BMS) with the TLE9012AQU a new sensing and balancing IC that is designed for batteries in hybrid and electric cars and other applications. It can measure the voltage in up to twelve battery cells with an accuracy of ± 5.8 mV over the entire temperature and voltage range as well as the… |
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650V CFD7 series MOSFETs for Electric Vehicle Applications with peak efficiency of 98.4% Infineon Technologies introduced the CoolMOS CFD7A series, silicon-based high-performance products that can be used in both the PFA and the DC-DC stage of on-board charger systems and HV-LV DC-DC converters that are designed for electric vehicle applications. These new devices are compatible with system voltages up to 475VDC and deliver peak efficiency of up to 98.4%… |
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Are electric planes the future of the aviation industry? How close are we today? There is a huge demand for lower emissions flights among consumers and airlines, speculations are that electric flights with zero-emission could be closer than you think. While there is a continuous change in the way we commute in roads, various automobile and tech giants are working towards lowering the carbon emissions and manufacturing electric and hybrid-electric… |
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What causes Battery Degradation in Electric vehicles and How to avoid it? Along with range anxiety and lack of charging infrastructure, battery degradation is also one of the main hurdles in making Electric Vehicles feasible for the masses. Different types of Lithium batteries have different life cycles depending on their chemistries, normally it would be somewhere between a few hundred to a few thousand. Over this charge cycle due to aging,… |
