Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Real-time variable gate-drive strength is a feature that enables designers to optimize system parameters such as efficiency and SiC overshoot. Engineers typically push ...

EV batteries and motors get all the attention, but it is the inverter that does the work of converting the battery's direct current to the alternating current needed by the motor. This might seem like ...

Renesas Electronics Corp. has announced the development of a new series of silicon (Si) insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) with low power losses in a small footprint. Targeting next-generation ...

Evert has unveiled technical and availability details of its new power management unit, a wallbox that integrates a 22 kW bidirectional DC electric vehicle charger, a 20 kW PV inverter, and a home ...

This is why it's not called efficiency. >100% efficiency is the realm of perpetual motion machines and other such quackery. The metric is Coefficient of Performance. A CoP of 3 means for every W ...

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) is introducing its fourth generation STPOWER silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET technology. The Generation 4 technology brings new benchmarks in power efficiency, power ...

Automotive technology company Valeo has partnered with ROHM Semiconductor to jointly develop the next generation of power electronics for electric motor inverters in electric vehicles (EVs). This ...

Benefits of soft-switching for WBG inverters. Types of soft-switching techniques. How MCU advances have pushed soft-switching back into automotive and industrial design. Wide-bandgap (WBG) ...

PARIS, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Stellantis unveiled an electric vehicle prototype on Friday featuring a faster-charging, lighter and more affordable battery that eliminates the need for a separate inverter ...