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How solar-charged HVAC keeps trucking cool

GreenBiz

How solar-charged HVAC keeps trucking cool. Most drivers spend their off-duty time in the sleeper compartments of their trucks, sometimes keeping the truck idling to get power and to cool or heat their space. Idling to keep cool. Most important, drivers need access to heating and cooling for their comfort and health.

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Allegro’s new gate driver reduces cooling fan noise and vibration

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Designed for battery cooling fans and HVAC systems in EVs and hybrids, the A89307 offers ultra-low noise and vibration by using a Field Oriented Control (FOC) algorithm to drive continuous sinusoidal current to the load. Allegro MicroSystems has introduced the new A89307 automotive-qualified gate driver integrated circuit (IC).

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Simplified EV battery and fuel cell testing with regenerative DC loads: WEBINAR

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Simplified, cost-effective testing of EV batteries and fuel cells with regenerative DC electronic loads and bidirectional DC power supplies that incorporate them.Return up to 96% of the energy absorbed by the DC electronic load, or bidirectional power supply in sink mode, to the power grid. Register for the webinar to learn more.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

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Heating or cooling the interior cabin of an EV substantially affects the vehicle’s on-road efficiency, and the HVAC system often gets the proverbial “rented mule” treatment. Heat pumps have two huge advantages: They can operate in both directions and they can transport more heat than the energy required to operate them.

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Mercedes battery pack plant in Alabama will shorten supply chain, reduce emissions

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Mercedes-Benz has opened a battery pack factory in Bibb County, Alabama, near a plant in Tuscaloosa where the company will soon be building its new EQE and EQS electric SUVs for the US market. The battery system uses a modular design. The cell chemistry contains nickel, cobalt and manganese in a ratio of 8:1:1.

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We should tariff things, not premises…

Energy Central

Your vehicle: heating and cooling (HVAC); the production of your solar and operation of your battery, etc. With the electrification trend that is coming, far more uses of electricity are going to get bundled into one rate. Should the cost of heat be tied to the cost to charge a.

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Axiom Exergy Joins List of Commercial Storage Companies Pivoting to Software

GreenTechMedia

Companies selling batteries of any sort to businesses grapple with the fact that the devices are expensive, take up valuable space and tend to require a painful and lengthy sales cycle. As such, several commercial battery vendors have shifted their business models , but none have done so quite like Axiom Exergy.

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