Dynamis PRC, the Formula Student team of Politecnico di Milano, has over 100 students and the team designs and manufactures a racing car prototype every year, for racing in the international Formula SAE championship. After 15 years in the combustion category, Dynamis PRC has reached fourth position, and first in Italy, in the Formula Student Combustion world ranking.

At the heart of every electric car is the battery. It should be compact and as powerful as possible - and above all safe. This places great demands on production. Researchers from Fraunhofer IPA are demonstrating what this could look like in the future at the Center for Digitized Battery Cell Production (ZDB).

Toyota announced that it will invest approx. USD3.4 billion in automotive batteries in the U.S. through 2030. Specifically, the investment is for developing and localizing automotive battery production, including those for battery electric vehicles, and is part of the global total of approx. USD13.5 billion set aside for investment in battery development and production.

Audi is already developing high-voltage batteries for plug-in hybrids in Neckarsulm. Now, development of complete high-voltage battery portfolios for fully electric vehicles is being predominantly settled at that location and gradually expanded for that purpose. Additionally, a battery center for testing high-voltage storage technologies will go into operation by 2023.

Nexperia, a specialist in essential semiconductors, announced its entry into the high-power Silicon Carbide (SiC) diodes market with the introduction of 650 V, 10 A SiC Schottky diodes. This is a strategic move for Nexperia, already a supplier of efficient power Gallium Nitride (GaN) FETs, to expand its high-voltage wide bandgap semiconductor device offering.

The IoT’s rapid growth, and electrification for greener energy, are driven by digital technology – yet digital solutions depend on analog sensors measuring pressure, temperature, flow, and many other real-world parameters. This article shows how EBV helps designers to source and integrate analog semiconductor solutions with a competitive edge.

A microdisplay breakthrough from University of Cambridge spin-out Porotech is set to accelerate the long-awaited commercialization of augmented reality (AR) glasses. The micro-LED pioneer has created the world’s first microdisplay based on native red indium gallium nitride (InGaN) – with an active area of 0.55 inches diagonally and a resolution of 960×540.

The World Climate Conference in Glasgow has just ended, and the question is whether the goal of maximum global heating of 1.5 °C can still be achieved. In a model calculation, Empa researchers show how the energy transition could lead to the lowest possible cumulative emissions: Instead of slowly cutting back emissions, we should quickly push ahead with the conversion to solar energy and use fossil power plants at full capacity for one last time to do so.

Jochen Hanebeck will take over as the new Chief Executive Officer of Infineon Technologies AG on April 1, 2022. This was decided today by the Supervisory Board. Hanebeck was reappointed for five years, his contract runs until March 31, 2027. He has been a member of the Management Board and Chief Operations Officer since 2016. He succeeds Dr. Reinhard Ploss, who has led the company as CEO since 2012.

In new research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have found interesting chemical behavior of one of the battery’s two terminals as the battery is charged and discharged.