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WVU engineers design new fuel cell that could be ‘lifesaving’ for US electrical grid
According to WVU Today, the study was supported by funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and has received the DOE ...
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Current collector: New German battery film to make EVs more powerful and safer
Fraunhofer FEP has developed this process for a new type of component for lithium-ion batteries called metal-on-polymer current collectors. As electric vehicles become more common, these new ...
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Edison and Tesla's 'Current War' ushered in the electric age
The man was Nikola Tesla, inventor of the alternating current (AC) motor. Tesla took the risk to demonstrate the safety of AC. For the past several years, the Edison Electric Light Company had ...
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Voltage/Current Doubler Converter for an Efficient Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles With 400-V and 800-V Battery Voltages - IEEE Xplore
The lithium-ion battery of an electric vehicle (EV) is typically rated at either 400 or 800 V. When considering public parking infrastructures, EV wireless chargers must efficiently deliver electric ...
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Online-Trained Radial Basis Function Neural Network Compensator for Current Harmonics Suppression of Electric Drives - IEEE Xplore
The extended state observer (ESO)-based deadbeat active disturbance rejection control (DB-ADRC) is commonly employed for high-performance torque or current control, however, it performs poorly when ...