Electric Vehicles This is a post I started six years ago and decided not to publish. Since then things have changed a lot so here goes.   The History of Electric Vehicles The Electric Vehicle has been around for a … Continue reading →

Powering Telemetry A big issue in the world of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it is abbreviated, is how to get power to remote devices. And this splits up into two separate but definitely related problems:   the … Continue reading →

Putting Light to Work Light is a really interesting thing. It has so many different aspects. And it took us a long time to work out exactly how it functioned. And in many ways that is still an ongoing process. … Continue reading →

LED Street Lighting With concern for rising global emissions and the majority of the worlds power still generated by burning fuels of one kind of another, the replacement of older street lighting technologies with higher efficiency and longer life LED … Continue reading →

Batteries Today There are four separate drivers for current battery technology:   Cost Size and Weight Capacity Recharge rates and cycles   An example of an emerging industry for batteries is electric vehicles. These require high recharge rates, high capacity, … Continue reading →