The Explorer’s rear bench features a flexible positioning system, sliding forward or backward to manage personal and cargo space. Campers can slide it forward on the ride to carry luggage, gear and supplies to the campground, then slide it back to open up a roomier dining and lounge area. At night, the bench folds flat into a full-width bed, sleeping up to five people in conjunction with the pop-up roof bed.

A design barrier for SiC is low-level parasitics. If there are too many internal and external parasitics, their performance can decrease to that of a silicon device, or it can cause circuit malfunctions. To break through this barrier, power designers may have to adopt new design and measurement techniques.

I’m a truck fan myself, there’s a start up company, Atlis Motor Vehicles, developing a 100% electric, full sized pickup with 4×4. Good on Wagner for making these changes. All of his trade-offs seem to be worth the rewards (including keeping more money in his pockets). Hopefully we can all make similar changes and make a bigger impact in reducing emissions.

Read the Wood Mackenzie report, Solar-Plus-Storage System Architectures: Design, Pricing and Economics in the U.S., here. 

Following a successful run of the battery during a match with Cardiff City on January 29 — with the Gunners side winning 2-1 in a not-pretty affair — the stage is now set for its next challenge, when the Arsenal face off against Bate Borisov in Europa League competition on Thursday, February 21.

In a sign of things to come, California featured predominantly in May’s headlines with the news that it had set a new record for peak output of utility-scale solar at more than 10.5 GW. It also hit a new record for the instantaneous portion of demand met by renewable energy on April 28, at 73%, just 15 minutes before the solar record, with solar and wind alone meeting 64% of demand.

The automotive industry has witnessed rapid evolution with continuous developments in engineering and technology. Technological advancements and the advent of disruptive trends such as connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles have proliferated the demand for electronics in vehicles.With the huge emphasis being laid related to environmental norms, the electric vehicle market has seen decent growth, and this has led to growth in its adjacent markets. The increasing electric vehicle propensity of consumers is likely to drive the market for vehicle inverters. Ambitious EV targets and policy support from governments have resulted into the lowering of EV costs, along with other influential factors such as extended vehicle range and improvement in charging infrastructure, which has further fueled the demand for electric vehicles globally. The Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI), which is a multi-government policy forum dedicated to accelerating the introduction and adoption of electric vehicles worldwide, has set a target of reaching an electric car fleet of 20 million by 2020 globally. The Paris declaration on Electro-Mobility and Climate Change have also set a similar global deployment target of 100 million electric cars by 2030.Modern vehicles have become increasingly complex with the rising usage of various devices to keep one engaged or entertained while traveling, especially while covering long distances. Nowadays, consumers look to perform various activities in the vehicle such as cooking, watching television, powering a laptop, and more. All these applications run on Alternating Current (AC), while the vehicles battery runs on Direct Current (DC). Vehicle power inverters convert the DC power stored in the vehicles battery into AC power, which can be used to run various household/handheld devices depending on ones choice or desire.The growth of the vehicle inverters market can be attributed to the increasing electric vehicle production and rising demand for various electronic features in vehicles.

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and supplies a portfolio of power semiconductors for consumer, computing, communications, and industrial markets primarily in the United States, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Germany. It offers various power discrete products, including low, medium, and high voltage power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs); and SRFETs, XSFET, electrostatic discharges, protected MOSFETs, and insulated gate bipolar transistors, which are used for routing current and switching voltages in power control circuits. The company also provides power IC products comprising devices that are used for power management and power delivery; and analog power devices that are used for circuit protection and signal switching. Its power discrete products are used in applications, such as smart phone charges, battery packs, notebooks, desktop and servers, data centers, basic stations, graphics card, game boxes, TVs, AC adapters, power supplies, e-bikes, motor control, power tools, e-vehicles, white goods and industrial motor drives, UPS systems, wind turbines, solar inverters, and industrial welding; and power ICs have applications in flat panel displays, TVs, notebooks, ultrabooks, servers, DVD/Blu-Ray players, set-top boxes, and networking equipment, as well as desktop PCs, tablets, smartphones, and portable electronic devices. The company markets its products directly, as well as through distributors and original design manufacturers to original equipment manufacturers. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited was incorporated 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

The drivers who will operate the electric trucks have had the opportunity to test-drive them prior to delivery, as part of the operator training. “The drivers were particularly impressed with the responsive driveline, delivering fast and seamless acceleration, and the low noise level,”

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The battery collects energy from its London-based renewables supplier, Octopus Energy, which was founded in 2016 to disrupt an industry it describes as “ruled by a handful of complacent dinosaurs peddling fossil fuels.” Beyond cost-saving measures like an “Agile” customer payback system designed for electricity conservation, Octopus has attracted buyers with cute initiatives, like automatically playing the Number 1 song from a customer’s 14th birthday when placed on hold.

He and an adult son reside in a 3,400-square-foot neo-Colonial in Taunton, where the house air-conditioning and a heated pool would result in an outsized electric bill that exceeded $300 a month.