This Week in PowerBites: EV Battery Recycling and Bidirectional Power Conversion
What you’ll learn:
- Commercial EV battery reuse/recycling operations show promise to yield significant economic, environmental, and security benefits.
- The arrival of single-stage bidirectional power-conversion devices changes the rules for designing EV chargers, solar inverters, and energy storage systems.
- Hybrid-electric aircraft are preparing to enter commercial service as early as 2028.
- Advanced power controllers bring higher efficiency and new features to power-hungry AI applications.
- Modern tech helps Nixie tube displays bring a touch of retro-cool to (almost) any design.
Technology Features
ProductBites
The month’s product highlights include the arrival of single-stage, bidirectional, power-conversion devices that change the rules for designing EV chargers, solar inverters, and energy storage systems Also in the mix are advanced power controllers that offer higher efficiency and new features to power-hungry AI applications, and Nixie tube displays bringing a touch of retro-cool to (almost) any design.
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About the Author
Lee Goldberg
Contributing Editor
Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.
Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.
Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.
Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.
Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.