n process, starting with 650V. “We are on track to begin providing samples to customers in the first half of 2026, and scale rapidly to volume production,” said Dinesh Ramanathan, onsemi Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, onsemi. onsemi will pair its silicon drivers, controllers, and thermally enhanced packages with GF’s 650V GaN technology platform to deliver optimized GaN devices with higher power density and efficiency. These ...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/20

Henkel, Germany, launches new thermal potting solutions for electric vehicle components On November 7, Henkel presented Loctite SI 5643 and Loctite SI 5637. Both Loctite SI 5643 and Loctite SI 5637 are two-component, fast-curing, low viscosity thermally conductive silicone potting compounds for high-performance power electronics. These potting solutions are optimized for crucial EV power conversion components such as on-board chargers and inverte...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/10

g mixed waste from end-of-life vehicles. The pilot project demonstrates the recyclability of high-performance plastics from automotive shredder residues (ASR) together with renewable raw materials.  This mixture of plastic, film, paint, and foam residues is so complex that it can currently only be thermally recycled. The pilot project shows that these automotive wastes can be recycled through gasification, a special type of chemical recycling, a...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/29

r-entrepreneurs, the truck features nine segment-first innovations. These include a 230 mm disc brake on an R13 wheel platform, a variable 34:1 gear ratio recirculating ball steering, a telescopic steering intermediate shaft for smoother steering, a battery pack with laser-welded battery modules on thermally conductive adhesive, and exceptionally bright headlights rated at over 60,000 candelas, etc. Based on the Euler Motors press release...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/22

Nexperia, Netherlands, launches new AEC-Q101 qualified 100 V MOSFETs On September 19, Nexperia launched its new AEC-Q101 qualified 100 V MOSFETs, in compact CCPAK1212 (12 x 12 mm) copper-clip packaging. These devices deliver ultra-low conduction losses with on-resistance (RDS(on)) as low as 0.99 mΩ, and enable safe current above 460 A.  This makes them ideally suited for thermally demanding 48 V automotive applications, including on-board charg...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/19

Kautex leads RESiLiTE project for next-gen battery packs for vehicles and aircraft Kautex Textron GmbH & Co., KG (Kautex) is coordinating the newly launched RESiLiTE (Robust, Economical, Silicon-rich, Lightweight, and Thermally Efficient battery packs) project, co-funded by Horizon Europe with approximately EUR 6.2 million in support. This three-year project, which commenced in July 2025, aims to develop innovative battery packs for automotive ap...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/22

carbide MOSFETs. The onsemi solution will power the Schaeffler traction inverter for a leading global automaker’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) platform. onsemi’s EliteSiC technology offers significantly lower conduction losses and superior short-circuit robustness, enabling a compact, thermally efficient inverter design. This solution offers the lowest on-state resistance to provide the highest peak power compared to other SiC solut...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/25

a new production line as early as the beginning of 2026 to more than triple the monthly production to around 150 tons by the fiscal year that ends in March 2031 (FY 2030). The company has started discussions about production in the U.S. Daido Electronics manufactures hot-formed neodymium magnets by thermally forming a powder made with an ultra-rapid cooling method and thermally forming the powder to realize high density. The hot-formed neodymium ...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/11

nsion of Setco’s product portfolio into the critical engine cooling segment. It is designed to serve the diverse needs of light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and MHCVs. Its key features include superior long-life seal integrity, high load-bearing capability, enhanced NVH isolation performance, and a thermally optimized impeller material grade. Based on Setco Automotive Limited press release ...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/05

Battery Show Europe 2025: WACKER, Germany to showcase advanced silicone solutions for E-Mobility On June 2, WACKER announced that it will unveil new silicone products designed for electric mobility at the Battery Show Europe 2025 in Stuttgart from June 3–5, 2025. The key highlights are: SEMICOSIL 9649 TC: a thermally conductive gap filler for power electronics in EVs. It helps transfer heat from electronic components to the vehicle’s cooling...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/04

arts suppliers expect the in-mold coating technology to be applied to various parts since the technology is a method that leads to decarbonization. With the in-mold coating technology, an injection molding machine is equipped with a paint injection unit to inject paint into a mold, and the paint is thermally solidified in the mold. The technology will eliminate coating and drying processes, which were previously performed separately, and make it ...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/18

ders for applications such as door mirror visors and other exterior parts in 2030. The technology integrates molding, coating, and drying processes to perform them inside the mold in one step. Coating material is poured into a vertical general-purpose forming machine with a dedicated system, and is thermally solidified in the mold. The new technology completes molding, coating, and drying processes using a single injection molding machine, and re...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/09

channel and a 5 °C reduction in operating temperature. In addition, a configurable watchdog automatically places the device in a fail-safe state if the connection to the CAN bus is lost.  The NEX13120FPC-Q100 can operate at a junction temperature range from -40 °C to +150 °C and is housed in a thermally enhanced 24-pin HTSSOP24 package. The NEX13120PC-Q100 is identical to the NEX13120FPC-Q100 and is suitable for applications without chip-lev...

News  Updated at: 2025/03/27

GlobalData blog: From hot to not: a new means to cool batteries Whether lithium-ion, solid-state, or sodium-ion, all types of current and future battery cells will produce heat when charged or discharged. There is the potential that solid-state cells might be so thermally robust and efficient that high performance cooling may not be required, but we are still yet to see this technology enter mass production. Higher charging rates will produce mor...

News  Updated at: 2025/03/17

Nexperia, Netherlands presents new automotive grade LDOs On February 20, Nexperia launched a new series of AEC-Q100 qualified low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulators with ultra-low quiescent current. This series features tracking LDOs with high accuracy and protected outputs, allowing direct connection to vehicle batteries due to their wide input voltage tolerance.  These thermally enhanced LDOs provide stable voltage under cold-crank conditions, s...

News  Updated at: 2025/02/27

on products and prototypes, ensuring they meet the performance standards of ISO and SAE bodies.  The center provides a comprehensive suite of advanced testing including Multipass Tests, Singlepass Tests, Filter Capacity Tests, etc.  It also conducts performance evaluations of materials under both thermally elevated and sub-zero environments, demonstrating their durability, with a focus on dust retention, water retention, and life-cycle performa...

News  Updated at: 2024/11/22

LG Chem to boost automotive adhesive business South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. announced that it will strengthen its automotive adhesive business. The company will supply thermally conductive adhesives to North American electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers. Taking this opportunity, it plans to scale up its automotive adhesive business to hundreds of million Korean won (tens of billions of yen). In 2018, LG Chem fully entered the automotive adhesive bu...

News  Updated at: 2024/11/06

that owners of nearly 1,600 Nexo hydrogen fuel cell SUVs in the U.S. and Canada should park them outdoors and away from structures due to the risk of fuel leaks and possible fires.  Hyundai is recalling 1,545 Nexo SUVs in the U.S. from the 2019 through 2024 model years The Nexo is equipped with a Thermally-activated Pressure Relief Device (TPRD) that vents hydrogen gas through a glass bulb-type release mechanism to the atmosphere to prevent ove...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/18

recycled lighting materials into new automotive parts in collaboration with value chain partners. They will deepen their collaboration in developing lighting, smart systems, and thermal management solutions. This will include high-performance optical-grade materials, smart surface technologies, and thermally conductive solutions. The two parties also unveiled innovative light-diffusing and infrared-transparent Makrolon polycarbonates which allow ...

News  Updated at: 2024/09/11

KRAIBURG, Germany developing new thermoplastic elastomers for battery systems On July 30, KRAIBURG TPE announced that it is developing thermally conductive thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) which are particularly suitable for battery systems when used in a two-component hard/soft composite.  Compared to liquid or paste-like thermal conductors, these new TPEs provide significantly higher functional and spatial stability when assembling the module. T...

News  Updated at: 2024/08/07