Michael Markides, director of power and utilities at IHS Technology attended this year's American Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in Long Beach, California. The IHS Power team dove into key industry topics like the ever...
IDTechEx says that sales of hybrid cars in the USA collapsed from 3.2% of car sales in 2013 to under 2% in 2015 as Americans responded to the sharply reduced oil price. However the oil price will recover eventually so commentary that it heralds...
Saft has been awarded a megawatt-scale Li-ion (lithium-ion) battery energy storage contract by Fortum, the Finnish energy company. A Saft Intensium Max containerised battery system, with a nominal output of 2 megawatts (MW) and 1 megawatt...
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has made nine awards totaling $1.3 million under its annual Seed Fund Program. Winning teams across campus will use the grants - in amounts of up to $150,000 each - to support early-stage innovative research...
Global semiconductor revenues fell by 2 percent in 2015. Quarterly growth was especially weak in the first quarter when the market declined 8.9 percent, the deepest sequential quarterly decline since the semiconductor market collapsed in late 2008...
Keynote speeches at the IDTechEx "Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing" conference in Berlin, April 27-28, will commence with Toyota and Daimler detailing their fuel cell vehicle rollouts. None of these organizations is seeking to...
Littelfuse Inc. has announced it successfully completed its acquisition of the circuit protection business of TE Connectivity Ltd. for $350 million in cash. The circuit protection business has a leading position in polymer-based...
ECIA (Electronic Components Industry Association) reported sales for all capacitor categories in North America for calendar year 2015 were down 10.5% in units and down 9.4% in dollars compared calendar year 2014. Forty-Four percent (44%) of...
The ongoing trade dispute between China and the United States continues to affect the manufacture of polysilicon used for solar-photovoltaic (PV) modules in both countries, but not equally. A rush to install projects in China before the deadline...
Mouser Electronics, Inc. is continuing its sponsorship of the 14th annual "Create the Future" Design Contest, a challenge to engineers and students worldwide to create the next great thing. Mouser’s valued supplier partners Intel...