Mining giant Rio Tinto has ordered four battery-electric locomotives for use in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Wabtec will produce the four 7 MWh FLXdrive locomotives in the US, beginning in 2023, and Rio Tinto plans to conduct initial trials in the Pilbara in early 2024. The e-locos will be tested against a range… Read more »
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GreenPower delivers Six BEAST School buses to Thermalito, CA school district
GreenPower Motor Company (NASDAQ: GP) has delivered six BEAST school buses to Thermalito Union Elementary School District in California. This is the largest single delivery of GreenPower’s BEASTs to date. One of the school buses received funding from the Butte County Air Quality Management District, and the other five received funding from the California Energy… Read more »
Flexible, scalable battery test for high power battery systems
Sponsored by Elektro-Automatik EA-PSB 10000 bidirectional, regenerative and auto-ranging programmable DC power Growing demands placed on modern batteries and accumulator systems present manufacturers with major challenges. On one hand, their systems have to provide more performance, service life and safety; on the other hand, end consumers expect products that have an attractive purchase price and… Read more »
Resonant Link says its wireless charging tech achieves 5-10 times lower power losses than others
Wireless charger manufacturer Resonant Link has been selected to participate in the Shell GameChanger Accelerator (GCxN), a collaboration between fossil fuel giant Shell and the US DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that provides early-stage cleantech companies with resources to accelerate product commercialization. By participating in the program, Resonant Link will benefit from NREL’s research… Read more »
American Axle to supply REE Automotive with electric drive units
American Axle will supply REE Automotive with its electric drive units (EDUs). AAM’s 3-in-1 electric drive technology—which incorporates the electric motor, gearbox and inverter into a single package—will be integrated into REEcorner technology. AAM’s high-speed, integrated 3-in-1 propulsion systems are designed to provide high levels of torque and power density, and REE’s compact and modular… Read more »
Solid Power partners with SK Innovation to produce solid-state batteries
Solid Power has partnered with SK Innovation to manufacture automotive-scale all-solid-state batteries using Solid Power’s sulfide-based solid electrolyte, proprietary cell designs and production processes. SK Innovation has also agreed to invest $30 million in Solid Power. The two companies will cooperate on cell development, validation and production in order to enable Solid Power to deliver… Read more »
GaN Systems and EPowerlab partner on new DC/DC converter
GaN Systems and engineering services firm EPowerlabs have partnered to develop a high-density DC/DC power converter (DDC48-1K) for a wide range of 48 V mobility applications for consumer, industrial and automotive customers. The companies say the new GaN converter is smaller and lighter than standard converters. The converter’s input range is 24-60 VDC, and the… Read more »
EV Motor Production Testing: How to Address High-Speed and High-Power Challenges
Electric motors, eAxles and EV power components have a unique set of production challenges for the automotive industry. Electric motors require more than standard electrical networks can provide. To test these components safely, a system needs to produce enough energy capable of spinning at extremely high RPMs and efficient enough to maintain it. The same… Read more »
Enable the Best Efficiency of EV Power Electronics Using Advanced Real-Time Control Solutions
OLEA T222 FPCU is a safe and real-time automotive control solution. OLEA FPCU T-222 is the industry’s first Field Programmable Control Unit (FPCU), a unique semiconductor architecture defined as a combination of accelerated parallel processing and hardware flexibility for critical real-time control and ASIL D level functional safety. OLEA FPCU is designed to process critical… Read more »
EV Power Components: A Total Testing Solution From the EVSE to the Battery
As EVs continue to evolve, the related standards, tests, and test systems follow suit. The automotive trends and obstacles that engineers face during design verification, functional test and mass production testing can be very difficult to navigate. This presentation has been put together to demonstrate the improvements made to EV testing performance, functional test systems,… Read more »