News articles relevant for automotive content, whether in terms of components, power, communications, infotainment or testing.
Knowles is aiming at electric and hybrid vehicle charging with a range of X7R multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). “The big change being seen in automotive applications is the voltage rating and size of components now being used,” said the firm. “This revolution in MLCC technology, used in control electronics, is being driven by modern on-board charging systems in electric vehicles ...
Kanazawa University and Hitachi have developed a compact sensor capable of pin-pointing sources of electromagnetic interference. The intention is to use the sensors to detect ageing electrical and electronic components before they fail, or their emissions cause malfunction in other devices. Application in the vicinity of IoT and automated driving electronics is expected. Three of them can be used to ...
The Government is too focused on highly-automated private road vehicles, when the early benefits of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) are likely to appear in other sectors, such as marine and agriculture, is one finding of a detailed report on driver-less vehicles prepared by the respected House of Lords science and technology committee. The other three main findings are: The development ...
Edinburgh fabless chip firm Dukosi has secured a further £2m towards developing its electric vehicle battery monitor IC. Unlike competing technologies, the firm is proposing that every cell in a battery includes its own measurement and intelligence, with cells co-operating over local wireless links. Car makers are interested. “This latest funding takes the company through the final development and readiness ...
Intel is to buy the Israeli driverless car company Mobileye for between $14 billion and $15 billion.
Can self-driving cars be achieved without LIDAR and precision mapping? Many say no, but a Hungarian start-up called AImotive thinks it can.
"With our participation in the 5G Automotive Association, we look forward to contributing and applying our 5G insights to the next-generation of intelligent transportation technologies"
Solid glass electrolytes could be the key to improving battery performance, according to a team at the University of Texas at Austin
TE Connectivity has added to its portfolio of Kilovac current-sensing high-voltage contactors. KCS01 has an integrated current sensor and current trip, and is intended harsh military and commercial electric vehicles, as well as power distribution, energy storage and battery storage. “At 145g, KCS01 contactors are among the smallest 100A contactors in the industry,” said TE product manager Earle Alldredge. “The ...
Mobile World Congress brought a demo of driverless cars controlled by 5G signals staged by Telefonica, Ericsson and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology KTH. The companies showed how they could control driverless cars on a test track 70km away in Tarragona. Telefonica’s Javier Lorca said that, for the moment, using cellular signals to control driverless cars would only work in ...
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