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Qnovo Secures Strategic Investment from Hyundai Motor and Kia
MILPITAS, CA, March 3, 2026 - Qnovo, a leader in battery software, today announced a strategic investment from Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation.
Qnovo Achieves Automotive SPICE: A Milestone in Automotive Software Excellence
We're proud to announce a significant milestone in our journey to deliver world-class battery intelligence solutions - we have successfully achieved Automotive SPICE (ASpice or Auto SPICE).
Qnovo and NXP Collaborate to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Battery Performance, Range, and Safety
Qnovo, the market leader e-mobility battery management software, today announced a collaboration with NXP® Semiconductors, a world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications...
Qnovo Introduces Smartphone Fast Charging with Innovative Battery Analytics
Mobile World Congress 2015 - Qnovo, a supplier of innovative mobile fast charging solutions, today announced a new approach to reducing mobile device battery...
Qnovo Secures Strategic Investment from Hyundai Motor and Kia
MILPITAS, CA, March 3, 2026 - Qnovo, a leader in battery software, today announced a strategic investment from Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation.
Qnovo Achieves Automotive SPICE: A Milestone in Automotive Software Excellence
We're proud to announce a significant milestone in our journey to deliver world-class battery intelligence solutions - we have successfully achieved Automotive SPICE (ASpice or Auto SPICE).
Before I start this post, I encourage all new readers to go back to the early posts if they desire to learn more about the basics of lithium-ion batteries and their operation. This post is dedicated to deciphering...
THREE DISCOVERIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED Li+ BATTERIES
For those of you old enough to remember the Sony Walkman portable radios in 1970s, they ushered a new era of consumer electronics, and one could argue, the first mobile battery-powered “devices,” the ancestral precursor to the Apple iPod three decades...
The lithium-ion battery market is large. For consumer devices, it will exceed $10B in 2015 corresponding to a total output capacity of 40 GWh. The promise of even greater markets in stationary energy storage and electric vehicles is attracting interest and...
Ah, we could talk for hours about James Bond’s 1964 Aston Martin DB5. Aston Martin remains an iconic luxury brand, one of the last vestiges of British automotive style. So fast forward to 2015, the age of electric cars and Teslas: Aston Martin just announced its...
Pause for a second and wonder why electric vehicles have frustratingly limited driving ranges? or why your smartphone lasts only for a few limited hours instead of an entire month? Yet, a good ol’ combustion-engine car can go for hundreds of miles without a...
There were several releases in the last day covering fast charging, and in particular, Qualcomm’s evolution of its power delivery mechanism called Quick Charge 3.0. This is quite exciting because it elevates the power delivery — i.e., the circuitry that delivers the...
One of the serious consequences of fast charging lithium-ion batteries is the formation of lithium metal on the surface of the anode (the negative electrode when the battery is being charged). While the battery industry has invested significant effort to ensure...
Not yours, of course….the smartphone’s waist. We see a race among the smartphone makers to go thin. The iPhone 6 Plus is 6.9 mm thick and it is already been outflanked by some new devices coming from China. In particular, the Oppo R5 boasts a thickness...
Elon Musks’ Gigafactory comes on line in 2017 to build some 35 GWh annually worth of batteries for Tesla. Thirty-five giga….that sounds like a big number. But wait, thirty-five gigabytes is a small capacity for your disk drive. So let’s put things in perspective...
A statement of this devilish nature during the middle ages would have earned its author a burning at the stake. The mere notion of a “battery” would have probably been in the realm of druids and witches, and reviving anything dead would have been…well...
One of the most recognizable electric vehicles on the road, the Nissan Leaf, has a battery capacity of 24 kWh. It has a rated driving range of nearly 80 miles, about ⅓ that of the Tesla Model S. It is therefore not surprising that its battery capacity is also nearly...
That is 3,000 mAh….this is the battery capacity that consumers will see in most mid-tier to high-end mobile smartphones for the foreseeable future. Why? It’s simple, this is the capacity that gives consumers an honest full day of operation. This begs a...
Kevin Gibb of TechInsights published recently an article in EE Times that shows a teardown of the lithium-ion battery used inside the iPhone 6 Plus. While the teardown and the article seemed motivated by determining the cost of this battery — somewhere...
Mary Meeker is a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins who publishes annually a report on internet trends. Her 2015 report can be found here. One can find some interesting insight and subtle observations on how our new digital society is evolving and using...
Fact: I am able to ride a significantly longer distance on my bicycle than I can drive in my electric vehicle….it can be frustrating to see my electric vehicle run out of juice! So I began to wonder on a recent cycling trip to what extent my Ford Focus Electric vehicle was...
It’s all over the media: Moore’s Law just turned 50! What is Moore’s Law? It’s more an observation than a law, but it has stuck around, now 50 years, that we think it is a law, like gravity. On 19 April 1965, Gordon Moore, at the time the head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductor...
Tesla Motors announced a few days back its new battery pack for the residential market. Called the PowerWall, it will be offered through Tesla’s sister company, SolarCity, to residential customers. Tesla says that this home battery will allow consumers to charge...
Apple just released its Apple Watch joining a growing list of manufacturers of new smart watches, including Samsung, LG, Motorola and others. These watches include, in addition to timekeeping, features such as messaging, basic email, navigation, in some...
Ultrafire is a China-based vendor of 18650 lithium-ion cells. One can buy their 18650 cells from eBay, Amazon and lots of other web-based stores. I was intrigued last week when I saw on eBay Ultrafire 18650 cells advertised with a charge capacity of 5,000 mAh...
We have covered in prior blogs the operation of batteries in smartphones. The vast majority of such devices use single-cell batteries. In other words, there is one physical cell that is the battery. As such, it has a given charge capacity measured in mAh or...
NASA landed in July 1969 the Apollo 11 on the surface of the moon. Along with the famed astronauts was the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), a 1960s-era computer to navigate the spaceship to the moon and back. A reliable machine for its time...
Samsung announced in September 2014 its GALAXY Note 4, a giant but elegant 6-in screen smartphone with a specified battery capacity of 3,220 mAh. It also made a bold claim that it charges the smartphone to 50% in 30 minutes. The marketing snippet...
You are shopping for a new smartphone and you are trying to understand how long the battery will last. But you can’t seem to get a straight answer. Apple says the iPhone 6 will last up to 14 hours of talk time on 3G but you are really not going to have your...
Did you know that the European semiconductor giant ST Micro makes rechargeable lithium-ion batteries? Probably not. You don’t believe me; go ahead and google “ST Micro thin-film batteries.” It’s really tiny. It is a square that measures one inch (25.7 mm)...
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