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EMT Madrid orders 50 Solaris electric buses

Polish bus maker Solaris has received an order for 20 Urbino 9 LE and 30 Urbino 12 electric buses from municipal transport company EMT Madrid. Deliveries are expected to be completed by July 2024. The low-entry 9 LE model accommodates 24 passengers, and the Urbino 12 accommodates 28. The city of Madrid, in accordance with… Read more »

2024 Dodge Charger Daytona: the ‘Brotherhood of Muscle’ goes electric

The Charger sedan and Challenger coupe exuded testosterone, courtesy of snarling V-8s. Dodge says the EVs that replace them will be just as noisy. The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona is a Detroit anomaly: it’s a passenger car in an age of trucks and SUVs, it’s battery-electric when U.S. makers seem to be in an EV… Read more »

FreeWire’s new Boost Power Pro supports blackout charging and bidirectional power flow

FreeWire Technologies, a provider of battery-integrated EV charging stations and energy management solutions, has announced Boost Power Pro, the flagship offering within FreeWire’s new Pro Series product line. FreeWire’s chargers feature built-in energy storage, which enables site hosts to rapidly deploy public fast charging, avoiding expensive upgrades to local electrical service. Ports can be customized… Read more »

Infineon and GlobalFoundries extend long-term agreement for automotive microcontrollers

Infineon Technologies and GlobalFoundries have signed a multi-year deal to offer AURIX TC3x 40 nm automotive microcontrollers, power management, connectivity and security solutions. The extra capacity will help Infineon develop from 2024 to 2030. GlobalFoundries and Infineon have developed distinctive automotive, industrial and security semiconductor technology and products since 2013. This partnership centers on a… Read more »

Bus maker Gillig acquires assets from Lightning eMotors, launches new engineering center in Colorado

The commercial EV market has always been a volatile one, and several high-profile startups, including Proterra, have recently gone belly-up. Fortunately, larger (and presumably better-funded) companies have been snapping up their assets. In the latest rising-from-the-ashes deal, Gillig, one of the largest US manufacturers of transit buses, announced that wholly-owned subsidiary Gerco has acquired select… Read more »

Sumida introduces two new series of AEC-Q200-qualified power inductors

Electronic component provider Sumida is introducing two new series of AEC-Q200-qualified power inductors at the 2024 APEC Power Electronics Conference in Long Beach. The DPQ3535/T150 and DPQ5050/T150 inductors are magnetically shielded and have a pin-type base for surface mounting on printed circuit boards. High-surface-area flat-wire windings minimize internal resistance at high frequencies and allow space… Read more »

EST-Floattech delivers Octopus Series battery system for SFK’s ferry Laboe

Dutch battery manufacturer EST-Floattech has supplied its Octopus Series battery system to German ferry operator SFK for its ferry Laboe, which was recently delivered to SFK by Holland Shipyards Group. The Laboe will transport commuters around the city of Kiel. It is capable of switching between use of generators and EST-Floattech’s 560 kWh Octopus High… Read more »

Bloomy’s new BMS test system brings hardware-in-the-loop battery design validation to the desktop

Bloomy Controls has launched a new battery-simulating test system that “brings the rigor and discipline of the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) design validation lab onto the individual desktops of multi-person, multi-site development teams.” Bloomy’s new Desktop BMS HIL Test System is a smaller, more compact and portable version of the company’s Full and FLEX BMS HIL Systems…. Read more »