Goodyear has developed a prototype tyre for the electric vehicle market. Traditional tyres can wear out up to 30% faster on electric vehicles due to the powerful, instant torque from electric motors and the additional vehicle weight from heavy battery packs, says Goodyear. “The combination of increasing regulations to reduce emissions, the desire to reduce ...

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Mouser is sponsoring the  the 16th annual Create the Future design contest with a $20,000 first prize. Previous contests have produced more than 12,000 design ideas from engineers, entrepreneurs and students in more than 100 countries. Last year’s grand prize winner was HI-Light, a solar thermal chemical reactor, developed at Cornell University, that converts carbon ...

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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has issued a demand that companies making products that connect to the internet should design security measures into them. Estimates show every household in the UK owns at least 10 internet connected devices and this is expected to increase to 15 devices by 2020, meaning there may ...

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Nexperia, the former NXP standard products divsion, has opened an assembly, test and warehouse site in Guangdong covering 72,000 square meters, adding an extra 16,000 square meters of production space. This will enable the factory in Guangdong to produce 90 billion parts annually, representing an increase of around 50% depending on product mix, and supporting Nexperia’s ...

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Cree has acquired the assets of Infineon’s RF power business  for approximately € 345 million. The transaction expands the Cree Wolfspeed business unit’s wireless market opportunity. Infineon continues to drive key growth areas such as electro-mobility, autonomous driving, renewables and technologies for a connected world. The transaction has closed and is effective today. “The acquisition ...

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