Chevy Volt Teardown: Charging system and powertrain
Al Steier from Munro & Associates and John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights analyze the Volt's powertrain electronics at Design West in 2012.
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Munro and Associates' Al Steier talks about the teardown of the Chevy Volt with Brian Fuller at the 49th Design Automation Conference in San Francisco.
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Al Steier from Munro & Associates and John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights analyze the Volt's infotainment electronics at Design West in 2012.
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Al Steier from Munro & Associates and John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights analyze the Volt's powertrain electronics at Design West in 2012.
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Munro & Associates' Al Steier and TechInsights' John Scott-Thomas analyze the Chevy Volt's battery pack in the first of three Drive for Innovation teardown sessions.
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Avnet donates its torn-down Chevy Volt, part of the Drive for Innovation, to Arizona State's SAE automotive engineering team.
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Munro & Associates tears down a Chevy Volt to its electronics subsystems as part of the Avnet Express and EE Times program Drive for Innovation.
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We get an up-and-close and obvious look at how much different (and more sophisticated) electronics control systems are in EVs compared with internal-combustion-engine cars.
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What were those funky knobs soldered onto the Volt entertainment board? Or were they soldered on in the first place?
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Munro and Associates' Al Steier and TechInsight's John Scott-Thomas discuss which Chevy Volt electronics modules to examine in the next phase.
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Munro and Associates' Al Steier walks us through the three main lithium-ion battery modules and what's next on the teardown of the Volt.
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Munro and Associates Al Steier and a colleague slide the lithium-ion battery pack from the Volt and prepare to uncover the cells.
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Volt Teardown Day 2: Getting ready for the battery pack
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Munro and Associates' Al Steier pulls over the engine hood and dives into the power electronics under the hood.
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John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights discusses what he's looking forward to analyzing as part of the Chevy Volt teardown.
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Munro and Associates' Al Steier talks about what his team has seen in the early hours of the Volt teardown.
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Munro & Associates' Al Steier talks about what he's seen in the first hours of the Chevy Volt teardown
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Preview of the teardown comparison of the Dell Streak and Samsung Galaxy Tablets, scheduled for Tuesday Feb. 1 in Santa Clara, Calif.
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EE Times Editors Brian Fuller and Patrick Mannion tear down and analyze the Dell Streak and Archos 7 tablet PCs at ARM TechCon 2010, Nov. 10, 2010
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EE Times Editors will teardown the Dell Streak and Archos 7 at ARM TechCon 2010, Nov. 9-11.
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Microchip sponsored this teardown of TN Games's gaming vest at ESC 2009. Jon Perrin of Microchip demonstrates the gaming vest (with PIC micros) that enables gamers to feel the pain of battle when playing video games. Rich Nass of TechInsights hosts.
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Frank Schirrmeister talks about Teardowns at the Embedded Systems Conference held in San Jose from March 30 to April 3, 2009.
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Allan Yogasingam tears down the Apple iMac to look at the components inside, as well as to consider why this product was a success for Apple, during the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston.
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