OEMs & Tier1 companies are moving towards 800V technology, to ensure faster EV charging & longer range, however, higher voltages stress primary insulation (even more) & can cause partial discharge leading to motor failure. To avoid this, modern stator design concepts use rectangular wires in hairpin or wave windings with a thicker insulating layer; which are coated with fluoropolymers. However, these are rather soft materials & have relatively poor resistance to abrasion & minor clamping force. In addition, they show low adhesion & are difficult to extrude. In comes Italy & Germany-based Tau, with its “DryCycle” technology, which allows wire coating with PFA, PTFE, ETFE & other fluoropolymers, with no solvents or primers (instead, solid-state...

France-based PASQAL is quantum computing startup <quick primer on quantum computers: instead of bits, which conventional computers use, a quantum computer uses quantum bits – known as qubits. To illustrate the difference, imagine a sphere. A bit can be at either of the two poles of the sphere (0,1), but a qubit can exist at any point on the sphere (0,1 &/ 1,0). So, this means that a quantum computer can store an enormous amount of info & uses less energy to so (as it can operate at room temperature) vs a classical computer>. Now onto the good stuff… What makes PASQAL stand out is that the startup is betting on “neutral atoms quantum computing”....