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Bourns HRP3822X and HRP5022X Series Shielded Power Inductors

Bourns Announces Two Very High Current Power Inductor Series Designed to Help Improve System Efficiency and Stability

Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components for power, protection, and sensing solutions, today announced its HRP3822X and HRP5022X Series Shielded Power Inductors. These very high current power inductors feature low DCR and shielded construction fo

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Date:

03/24/2025

Xiaolei Wang, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton

New Material Moves Seawater Batteries Step Closer to Primetime

As the world makes more use of renewable energy sources, new battery technology is needed to store electricity for the times when the sun isn’t shining, and the wind isn’t blowing. “Current lithium batteries have reached their limitations in terms of energy storage capability, life cycle, and safet

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Date:

03/24/2025

Silicon Labs Unveils BG29: The Future of Bluetooth LE in Miniature Devices

Silicon Labs announced its new Series 2 BG29 family of wireless SoCs, designed to bring high compute and connectivity to the smallest form factor Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices without compromising performance. BG29 is ideal for today’s most intensive Bluetooth LE applications like wearable he

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Date:

03/12/2025

Modular and integrable: 24V DC UPS solution with UPSI-2406 and LiFePO4 high-performance battery pack BP-LFP-1375S (99Wh)

24V DC UPS Solution for Industrial, Medical and Smart Infrastructure Applications

Bicker Elektronik, Donauwoerth/Germany, introduces a modular DC UPS solution for safety-critical systems in industrial, medical and smart infrastructure applications. The 24V DC uninterruptible power supply with CE-certified LiFePO4 battery pack ensures fail-safe operation during power outages, voltage dips or

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Date:

03/11/2025

Danielle Spalding of Cirba Solutions

PSDcast – What the Proposed Auto Tariffs Could Mean for the Industry (Particularly EVs)

Shortly after assuming office for the second time, President Trump instituted a 25% tariff on all items from Mexico and Canada (excepting energy resources from the latter, which have a lower 10% tariff), and along with all that, an additional 10% on top of existing tariffs for China. We’d like to take a lo

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Date:

03/07/2025

Zach Dell, CEO of Base Power

Base Power and Bandera Electric Cooperative Announce Industry-First Distributed Battery Storage Partnership

Base Power, a fast-growing distributed energy company, has partnered with Bandera Electric Cooperative (Bandera Electric, BEC, or the cooperative), a member-owned Texas cooperative, to support BEC's innovative home battery program. Through this partnership, BEC will provide homeowners with affordable who

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Date:

03/06/2025

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Figure 1. The various BMS functional blocks can be tested using the instruments listed in the parentheses.

Testing Battery-Management-System ICs

David Butkiewicus, Product Manager, Advantest

Batteries are the ubiquitous powerhouses running portable electronics, power tools, energy-storage systems, e-bikes and e-scooters, and electric automobiles and buses. For optimum performance, battery packs in such products require sophisticated battery-management-system (BMS) ICs to optimize performance and ma

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Date:

03/01/2025

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Figure 1 - Individual cell temperatures can vary across a typical EV battery pack

Demystifying EV Batteries

Joseph Notaro, Vice President Global Sales & Marketing at Dukosi

The electric vehicle (EV) is widely seen as critical to the reduction of global emissions, but mass-market adoption can be hindered by concerns over the safety and performance of the battery packs which power them. This article will examine how technical advancements in battery technology are addressing these li

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Date:

03/01/2025