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INSIDER: Energy
North American automakers and EV battery firms have five years to erase China’s dominance in technology and manufacturing or they may face the reality of buying...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Managing the heating and cooling of electric vehicle propulsion systems may seem to be an easy task compared with combustion engines. After all, ICEs run much hotter — the thermal optimum for a...
Articles: Materials
Whether you call them packs, boxes, or trays, the structures that envelop and protect EV battery cells and their supporting electrical and thermal-management hardware are among the industry's top subsystem priorities.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
India is a fast-growing market for electric vehicles, with one study predicting that over 30 percent of the vehicles sold in India will be electric by 2030.
Articles: Power
Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) such as golf carts have been traditionally powered by lead-acid batteries.
Articles: Test & Measurement
Battery packs, whether made of prismatic, cylindrical, or pouch cells, are cooled by common automotive thermal management systems.
Articles: Energy
Cylindrical cells are one of the most common battery types used in electric vehicles. Tesla recently improved on the typical cylindrical cell design, developing a new tab design that allows for a much larger cell.
Articles: Energy
The Battery Show North America is a forum for advanced battery technology for electric and hybrid vehicles, utility and renewable energy support, portable electronics, medical technology, military, and telecommunications.
Articles: Energy
As the vehicle platform size decreases, the pulse power discharge rates of the Energy Storage System (ESS) increase.
Articles: Energy
When it comes to the research and development of batteries, modeling and simulation (M&S) provide an efficient and low-cost approach.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A number of battery-related innovations have been assisted by a joining technology: ultrasonic metal welding.
Articles: Energy
Cell chemistries, thermal dynamics, vehicle packaging, and even weather present challenges for optimizing electric vehicle battery functional safety.
Briefs: Energy
The patch could serve as a personal thermostat and save energy.
Briefs: Automotive
A battery pack is only as strong as its weakest cell. As battery packs become larger and more integral to the stable operation of devices and systems, the need to monitor battery dependability and performance in...
Application Briefs: Energy
Siemens PLM SoftwarePlano, TXwww.plm.automation.siemens.com
The use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries has made the electric vehicle (EV) a reality, and electric...
Briefs: Propulsion
Wireless Ultrasonic Inspection Propulsion System
During inspection of pressure vessels and other large structures, an industry-accepted fixture is used to hold the search unit a predetermined distance from the area of interest under inspection. This fixture is then moved manually around the area of interest so that data can be collected and stored...
Articles: Automotive
HYLIION - HYBRID TECHNOLOGY FOR SEMI-TRAILERS AND THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY
Thomas Healy, RF Culbertson, AJ Emanuele, Morgan Culbertson, Wilson Sa, Pam Culbertson, Chad Saylor, Len Kulbacki,...
Articles: Aerospace
Advances in Capacitor Materials
Electrochemical capacitors, or supercapacitors, have gained intense interest as an alternative to traditional energy storage devices. Applications for supercapacitors range from plug-in...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Many future space vehicles, planetary bases, and mining operations will be too large and heavy to launch on a single rocket. Instead, component parts would need to be launched on multiple...
Briefs: Energy
High-Energy-Density Solid-State Li-Ion Battery with Enhanced Safety
High-energy-density and safe rechargeable batteries are required for NASA’s future exploration missions. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are attractive energy storage systems due to their relatively high energy and power densities. However, the unfavorable side reactions between...
Articles: Medical
Non-Surgical Circulatory Support Device for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure
Omar Benavides, Benjamin Hertzog, Jace Heuring, Reynolds Delgado, and Will Clifton Procyrion, Inc....
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Fire safety in space vehicles is of utmost importance, especially for manned flight. On the International Space Station (ISS), events that may lead to fires, especially smoldering, must be...
Articles: Energy
Specifying the ideal power management solution for remote wireless devices found in extreme environments and hard-to-access locations requires more ruggedized solutions. Fortunately, two viable options are now...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
There is a need to advance the development of high energy density batteries, along with other efficient alternative energy sources. The need for batteries having a higher energy...
Application Briefs: Energy
Quallion, a developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion storage systems, assisted in the launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Pegasus® rocket, which carried NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Array...
Briefs: Energy
An Integrated, Layered-Spinel Composite Cathode for Energy Storage Applications
At low operating temperatures, commercially available electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries do not fully meet the energy and power requirements for NASA’s exploration activities. The composite cathode under development is projected to provide the required...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The benefits of aquatic physical therapy and rehabilitation for those who have difficulty with weightbearing activities due to arthritis or injury, or those who are overweight, have...
Application Briefs: Imaging
The Kettering University Crash Safety Center (Flint, MI) conducts vehicle subsystem tests using a pneumatic deceleration sled. The research and testing includes frontal, rear, or side impact...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A system that includes sensors and data-acquisition, wireless data- communication, and data-processing subsystems has been developed as a means of both real-time and historical tracking of information...
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