Automotive Connectors: Interconnection World

California to upgrade EV charging network (Aug 19, 2010)

The California Energy Commission has chosen EV Connect for a $1.9M electric vehicle infrastructure upgrade focused on chargers conforming to the SAE J1772 spec.

IEEE publishes standard for in-vehicle WLANs (Jul 29, 2010)

The 802.11p spec enables WLAN connectivity at speeds of 120+ mph.

Leviton and Coulomb Technologies team to enable home, public EV charging stations (Jul 21, 2010)

An OEM and marketing agreement extends Coulomb's open system ChargePoint electric vehicle driver network through Leviton’s EVSE products and customer base.

ITT says electric vehicle connector meets SAE J1772 charging spec (Jul 20, 2010)

Based on HEP spring contact technology, the connectors are billed as the industry's first UL-rated, J1772 Level II 75A four-hour-or-less full charging connectors.

Report pits 1394-Automotive vs. proposed Ethernet AVB spec for automotive networking systems (Jul 7, 2010)

A new technical article compares the advantages of products based on the 1394-Automotive standard with a proposed new Ethernet AVB specification.

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