Are rental car customers ready for EVs? We’re going to find out. Rental giant Hertz theoretically began introducing EVs to its fleet in 2011, and competitors soon followed. However, they were offered only in select markets, sometimes at super-premium prices. Meanwhile, Teslas became popular on the peer-to-peer rental network Turo. Now Florida-based Hertz, which rents… Read more »
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Choosing the Right Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor Technology for xEV DC-link Applications
Aluminum and hybrid polymer electrolytic capacitors have become an important part of most high-efficient electrical designs for xEV DC-link applications. These capacitor solutions have high ripple current capability and compactness helping to optimize the mechanical options required to develop DC/DC converters with higher performance. In this session, we will discuss aluminum electrolytic capacitor technology and… Read more »
Material Solutions for High Reliability and High Temperature Power Electronics
Wide band gap semiconductors like silicon carbide (SiC) with superior performance have become the successors to traditional silicon devices for high performance power electronics. The state-of-the-art interconnection technologies are not anymore suitable to the demanding application requirements. The new generation power modules and systems require engineered matched materials as per the application. Heraeus provides innovative… 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 »
Today’s EV engineering webinar schedule: Thursday, October 21
Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend this week. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All of the live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos… Read more »
A Breakthrough Pyro Safety Module for Safe eMobility and Energy Storage Markets: An Introduction to PYTIC
Littelfuse, Inc. and Astotec Automotive created a joint venture resulting in a new company, PYTIC (Pyro Technology for Intelligent Circuit Disconnection). PYTIC is focused on the development and distribution of a new and innovative pyrotechnic-based separator—acting as a true galvanic cut-off device—for the eMobility market and other industrial electrical energy storage applications. As hybrid-electric vehicles… Read more »
Providing Your Customers a Trouble-Free Vehicle Charging Experience
The charging experience is one of the largest differences between vehicles with a battery and vehicles with a fuel tank. The core charging requirements are established and standardized, however both the technology and applications are still in early stages of maturity. Therefore, they are subjected to intense market pressure to expand, evolve, and improve. The… Read more »
V2G-equipped electric school bus delivers power to grid for 50 hours
Electric school buses are often cited as an ideal use case for vehicle-to-grid technology. Most school buses transport students for only a few hours per day when school is in session, and are parked during the summer months, when demand for electricity is often highest. A number of V2G school bus pilots are underway around… Read more »
Today’s EV engineering webinar schedule: Wednesday, October 20
Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend this week. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All of the live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos… Read more »
Testing EV Batteries? Here’s how to get to market faster without compromising safety
EV Battery validation demands more than iterative optimization; it demands innovation in multiple dimensions for which there is no playbook or best practices. Expectations on safety and performance continue rising. Regulations, standards, and ways to test against them change constantly. How do you keep up with this ever-moving target? You move faster by optimizing the… Read more »