Renesas has introduced a battery pack monitor for long strings of cells that uses an ac-coupled bus to solve the thorny problem of passing data up and down the line. At the same time, it revealed a ...

Linear Technology has released a second generation of a chip, intended to be built into electric-vehicle battery packs with output potentials in the hundreds of volts. To minimize conduction losses in ...

Renesas has announced its fourth-generation lithium-ion battery management IC for electric vehicles – promising “unmatched lifetime accuracy”, which it quantifies as ±6mV (at ±6σ) 15-year board level ...