Electric cars barely existed in 2010, when the Tesla Model S was still a glint in Elon Musk’s eye. Now more than 20 million EVs girdle the globe, according to BloombergNEF—and that count is expected to nearly quadruple to 77 million by 2025. A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77… Continue reading The EV Battery Wish List
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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power
In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. The company’s president, Tom Gage, dubbed the system “vehicle to grid”… Continue reading False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power
Reimagined Jet Ski Brings EVs to the Beach
Cars aren’t the only conveyances being transformed by electricity. Along with electric motorcycles and snowmobiles, personal watercraft are floating better ways to coexist with nature and neighbors. This new breed of machines brings requisite thrills to the Great Outdoors, but without fouling the atmosphere or disturbing the peace with an internal-combustion racket. The latest comes… Continue reading Reimagined Jet Ski Brings EVs to the Beach
How High Precision GNSS Enables New Automotive Applications
The typical positional accuracy provided by standalone GNSS is 3-10 meters, which is suitable for automotive applications such as navigation and emergency call. With the emergence of high precision GNSS, able to mitigate the influence of errors, sub-decimeter positional accuracy is possible and it becomes usable for more advanced applications such as C-V2X and autonomous… Continue reading How High Precision GNSS Enables New Automotive Applications
The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
The introduction of any new system causes perturbations within the current operating environment, which in turn, create behavioral responses, some predictable, many not. As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. Their… Continue reading The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
Evolution of In-Vehicle Networks to Zonal Architecture
Rohde & Schwarz webinars As the automotive industry develops vehicles with increased levels of autonomous driving requiring more sensors and increased connectivity, it faces the challenge of transporting and processing a huge amount of data in the vehicle. To do this in an efficient way, it is necessary to reduce In-Vehicle Network complexity, power consumption… Continue reading Evolution of In-Vehicle Networks to Zonal Architecture
Autonomous Drive Emulation: Applying C-V2X Test Solutions Across the Automotive Workflow
Achieving fully autonomous driving relies on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication between the surrounding infrastructure and in-vehicle-based sensors. The functionality and safety of systems that incorporate V2X must be verified across a variety of situations and conditions. As the breadth and depth of such testing increases, it quickly becomes too expensive, impractical, and risky to use actual… Continue reading Autonomous Drive Emulation: Applying C-V2X Test Solutions Across the Automotive Workflow
Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea
“Electric cars will not save the climate. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. If Birol were from Maine, he might have simply observed, “You can’t get there from here.” This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless. Analysis by the… Continue reading Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea
The Costly Impact of Non-Strategic Patents
The five largest auto manufacturers will face massive U.S. patent fees within the next five years. This report examines their decisions on which patents to keep, sell or prune, and the resulting cost savings and revenue extraction. Patent lapse strategies can help companies in any industry out-maneuver the competition. Volume 2 of the U.S. Patent… Continue reading The Costly Impact of Non-Strategic Patents
Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs
With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations, and state and federal EV rebates, “you’re going to see that you have no more excuses” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Perhaps, but getting… Continue reading Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs