This Week in PowerBites: Next-Gen Batteries on the Horizon
What you’ll learn:
- The cost of grid-scale energy storage is poised to plummet as American-made iron-air batteries enter production.
- Growing popularity of hybrid-electric ferries may be a harbinger of the greening of marine transportation.
- Advances in electric motor drive and control are enabling more efficient, powerful, and cost-effective appliances, HVAC, and industrial equipment.
- Passive component manufacturers are stepping up their game with new types of inductors and resistors that offer high reliability and enable increased power densities.
Battery Tech Advances
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What you’ll learn:
- Manufacturers are rolling out a new generation of automotive-grade switching power converters capable of supporting the 800-V primary voltages that are becoming common in next-gen EVs.
- Advances in electric motor drive and control are opening the door to more efficient, powerful, and cost-effective appliances, HVAC, and industrial equipment.
- Passive component manufacturers are stepping up their game with new types of inductors and resistors that offer high reliability and enable increased power densities.
Motor Innovations
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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.