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Fuel Cell Generator by Hyundai’s HTWO Brand to Power World’s First Electric Touring Car Racing Category
Hyundai Motor announced today that its dedicated world-leading hydrogen fuel cell system brand, HTWO, will make its motorsports debut, providing its fuel cell generator to the ETCR (Electric Touring Car Racing) category. ETCR is the world’s first all-electric touring car race category that provides leading vehicle manufacturers a global stage to showcase electric technology in…
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Sales in Japan of Nissan e-POWER electrified vehicles surpasses 500,000-unit cumulative milestone
Nissan announced today that the cumulative sales of vehicles with Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain surpassed 500,000 units at the end of March. The Nissan e-POWER system uses a highly efficient gasoline engine to generate electricity for the electric motor that propels the vehicle. For customers, this delivers EV-like excitement, quietness and smooth acceleration, but with…
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Toyota and Honda to Begin Demonstration Testing of a Mobile Power Generation / Output System to Deliver a Secure Supply of Electricity in Times of Disaster
Supply of Electricity in Times of Disaster Toyota and Honda will create a mobile power generation/output system, Moving e, that consists of a fuel cell bus that can carry a large amount of hydrogen, portable external power output devices and portable batteries, and will begin demonstration testing of the system’s ability to deliver electricity anytime…
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Toyota Develops Fuel Cell Generator Based on the Mirai FC System
Toyota has developed a stationary fuel cell generator (FC generator) that makes use of the fuel cell system (FC system) equipped in the Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV). The FC generator has been installed within the Honsha Plant grounds in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, and verification tests have now commenced. The FC generator uses…
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Panasonic’s new Nanoe generator generates 4.8 trillion OH radicals per second
Panasonic today announced the development of a Nanoe generator in cooperation with Yoshio Higashiyama, professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yamagata University. The new Nanoe generator n generates 10 times more OH (hydroxyl) radicals than its previous product. The Nanoe generator can neutralize pollen/mite/insect-derived substances that cause allergic symptoms and that it can also…
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LG NeON 2 BiFacial solar module receives prestigious Intersolar Europe award
LG received its third consecutive Intersolar Award for its new innovative NeON 2 BiFacial solar module at Intersolar Europe this week. LG first received the award with the Mono X NeON in 2014 and again in 2015 for the NeON 2.The LG NeON 2 BiFacial is LG’s most efficient premium solar module to date. While…
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Casio Announces Eight New Affordable Laser & LED Projectors
Casio today announced eight new affordable Laser & LED Projectors. The new projectors announced today include five WXGA and three XGA models. All eight of these new models are equipped with a 1.5X zoom lens for optimal flexibility in projector placement. The Advanced Series models can also be used to power other devices with HDMI…
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China Starts Construction of World’s First 1,100kv DC Line
This week China started work to build world’s first 1,100 kilovolt direct current electricity transmission line. The 1,100kv DC Line will start from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, connecting Gansu Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Shaanxi Province, Henan Province and Anhui Province. The whole length will be over 3,300 kilometers. When finished in 2018,…
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Energy Self-Consumption House Verification Test to Start in Japan Next Month
Misawa Homes, Misawa Homes Institute of Research and Development Co Ltd (Suginami-ku, Tokyo) and Kyocera will start to jointly conduct a verification test of an energy self-consumption house, which preferentially uses electricity generated in house, by using a model house built in Nara Prefecture in October 2015.
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LG announces sales of more than 10 million refrigerators with its patented Inverter Linear Compressor Technology
LG announced the sales of more than 10 million refrigerators with its patented Inverter Linear Compressor around the world since 2001. In 2007, LG sold one million of its Inverter Linear Compressor-equipped refrigerators and increased that number to five million in 2011 and 10 million earlier this month. LG’s technology employs a straight piston drive…
