A battery charge controller is an essential part of a power system that charges a battery because it can keep the battery safe for a long term. A charge controller, in principle, is an electronic ...

Some of the main points of consumer resistance against hybrid vehicles include perceptions that the costly high-voltage battery packs in these vehicles are unreliable and prone to frequent or ...

DETROIT General Motors Co. (GM) is recalling 38,197 Chevrolet Malibu Eco, Buick LaCrosse and Buick Regal sedans in the U.S. because a defective battery control module could stall the engine or cause a ...

What is the quiescent-current control module? How to do a parasitic draw diagnostic. In the automotive market, a multitude of buck-converter ICs enable automotive power engineers to achieve low ...

Simultaneously increasing the energy and power density of batteries is widely regarded as one of the hurdles preventing EVs from wider acceptance by consumers. Design engineers usually have to ...

In an earlier blog post I did a teardown analysis of the XL4015 DC-DC Buck Converter module. I recently received an improved version of the same module. I purchased it from an online seller in China.