Renewables

Spark EV Technology aims to tackle a major hurdle hindering the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) by partnering with the University of Essex on a new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP.) The main two factors restricting mass EV adoption are – range anxiety, where drivers worry about running out of charge before reaching their destination, and a lack of trust that existing in-car systems are accurate. These concerns stop people switc...

Infineon Technologies is a new partner in the Volkswagen Group’s strategic supplier network FAST (Future Automotive Supply Tracks). This programme stands for close cooperation in key future fields. Infineon contributes significantly to the move toward electric drivetrains by the world’s largest car maker. Infineon’s power modules control the electric drive in Volkswagen’s modular electric drive matrix MEB, which is the ind...

PV mounting system manufacturer Renusol Europe, based in Germany, has managed to bring in twice as much revenue in the first third of this year as it did in the same timeframe last year. From January to April of this year alone, the company distributed mounting solutions responsible for a total PV output of around 50MW.

The West African solar energy company, Daystar Power, has partnered with Trine a Swedish investment platform to finance solar power systems in West Africa. The partnership opens up investments in Daystar Power’s solar power installations, previously limited to large-scale investors, to the wider public.

  Amidst the global pursuit of electrification in the commercial vehicle industry, Allison Transmission has announced the development of highly efficient and powerful axles for electric vehicles.

Fully tested reference designs for battery management and traction inverter systems, have been introduced by Texas Instruments, along with new analog circuits with advanced monitoring and protection features to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions and enable hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (HEV/EVs) to drive farther and longer.

Despite the news that March car sales in the UK fell once again, by 3.4% compared to last year, there is a growing force behind electric vehicles bucking this trend. EV sales doubled in February compared to 2018 and there were over 125,000 electric and hybrids bought throughout Europe in March. However, this remarkable growth surge is despite government policy, according to employee green car scheme specialists Fleet Evolution.

The production release of a family of SiC power devices that offer proven ruggedness and the performance benefits of wide-bandgap technology, has been announced by Microchip. Complemented by Microchip’s broad range of microcontrollers (MCUs) and analogue solutions, the SiC devices join a growing family of reliable SiC products.

A device for monitoring and logging the voltage, charge current as well as the effective values has been developed by Klaric. The EV CHARGE-MONITOR is installed between the charge station and the electric or hybrid vehicle. With the EV CHARGE-MONITOR, the user is able to see, evaluate and to validate the charging process. 

Constructing power-intensive data centres where electricity can be obtained on a climate-friendly basis, for example in wind turbines, has been the idea for ‘WindCORES’ for a couple of years now. A new project called ‘WindCORES++’, which was developed in cooperation between WestfalenWIND IT, Rittal and SICP, won in Category 1 of the German Data Centre Award in the ‘Ideas and research in relation to data centres&rsquo...