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Car companies, starting with Volvo last summer, have laid out plans to electrify entire lineups of vehicles. But the fine print makes it clear that the coming decade and beyond will focus not just on massive battery packs powering electric motors, but also on adding a little extra juice to the venerable internal combustion engine.
Increasingly, that juice will arrive in the form of new electrical systems built to a 48-volt standard, instead of the 12-volt systems that have dominated since the 1950s. Simpler than Prius-type drivetrains and less expensive than Tesla-scale battery power, the new electrical architecture both satisfies the demands of cars made more power hungry by their gadget load and enables the use of lower-cost hybrid drive systems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/electric-cars-48-volts.html
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 26 2018, @08:54PM (2 children)
Define significant...
I've definitely seen half-functional LED lamp modules driving around.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday February 26 2018, @09:55PM (1 child)
Well in that case, it sounds like the individual diodes failed, rather than there being a problem with the wiring, connections, etc. LEDs do age and fail over enough time (less if the LED is driven closer to its limit).
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:16AM
Sometimes an individual diode, more often half a panel... and let's not even get into those LED matrix billboard signs.
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