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Archives for June 20, 2019

ABB and Octopus Group collaborate on e-mobility

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ABB is to collaborate with UK-headquartered financial services and clean energy firm, Octopus Group.

Together, ABB and Octopus Group seek to explore and develop further e-mobility market offerings that will support fleet operators to achieve a transition to zero emission transport.

Operators will be able to source the required mobility investment from Octopus Group, through flexible financing models and renewable electricity supply, while ABB will provide its EV charging infrastructure and energy technologies to deliver the transition to electric buses and commercial fleets.

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Michelin and GM present airless car tyres 

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Michelin and General Motors have presented a new generation of airless wheel technology, the MICHELIN Uptis Prototype (or “Unique Puncture-proof Tire System”).

GM intends to develop this airless wheel assembly with Michelin and aims to introduce it on passenger vehicles as early as 2024.

Later this year, GM will initiate real-world testing and validation of the Uptis Prototype on a Michigan test fleet of Chevrolet Bolt EVs.

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Teradyne extends memory test capabilities with new Magnum VU test system

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Teradyne, Inc. has announced the new Universal Protocol Board (UPBx), a module for its Magnum VU memory test system that enables testing of high-speed memory devices, popular in cutting edge mobile phones and tablets.

As mobile devices offer higher resolution video, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications, they are adopting higher speed NAND storage based on the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 3.0.

UFS 3.0 devices feature interface speeds up to 16Gbps per lane for real-time application performance such as faster boost, faster multimedia and higher gaming performance.

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