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CORK, Ireland, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, today announced it has joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism. Signatories of the Pledge commit to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, ten years ahead of the goal set out in the United Nations’ Paris Climate Agreement.

Johnson Controls is one of 53 organizations that have now signed the Pledge, and the move comes hot on the heels of the company’s announcement of new environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments, science-based targets, and its own net-zero carbon pledge. The pact will see Johnson Controls partner with other industry leaders to uncover new pathways to meet common environmental and sustainability goals.

«Sustainability is at the heart of our business and fundamental to everything we do as a company,» said George Oliver, Johnson Controls chairman and CEO. «Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the planet today. Our recent announcement to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 through innovations and technologies such as our OpenBlue platform, further demonstrates our commitment to protect and preserve the environment. We are looking forward to further enhancing the role we can play by working with Amazon, Global Optimism, and other signatories to reach net-zero carbon a decade before the important Paris Agreement’s goal.»

The Climate Pledge allows signatories to share access to technologies, best practices, and innovations in supply chain enhancements, and create joint action to address the most critical climate challenges. Specifically, signatories pledge to accelerate the path to net zero by agreeing to regular reporting on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon elimination, and credible offsets. Johnson Controls has a long-standing business relationship with Amazon and has been working with the company since 2008.

«As the U.S. takes an important step forward in the fight against climate change by officially rejoining the Paris Agreement this week, I am excited to welcome 20 new companies to The Climate Pledge who want to go even faster,» said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. «Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019 to encourage companies to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early, and we’re seeing incredible momentum behind the pledge with 53 companies from 18 industries across 12 countries already joining. Together, we can use our collective scale to help decarbonize the economy and preserve Earth for future generations.»

Johnson Controls’ participation in The Climate Pledge reinforces its mission to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places, and the planet. As a leader in the buildings space for 135 years, and a pioneer in sustainability, the company is focused on empowering customers and communities to streamline building operations and deliver energy efficiencies that will help them meet their environmental goals.

Johnson Controls is driving sustainability across its entire value chain by focusing on clean energy solutions, people, partnerships, performance, and governance. It is ranked in the top 12 percent of climate leadership companies globally by CDP and was named one of Corporate Knights’ Global 100 Most Sustainable Companies. 

About Johnson Controls:

At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. From optimizing building performance to improving safety and enhancing comfort, we drive the outcomes that matter most. We deliver our promise in industries such as healthcare, education, data centers and manufacturing. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries and over 130 years of innovation, we are the power behind our customers’ mission. Our leading portfolio of building technology and solutions includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as Tyco®, YORK®, Metasys®, Ruskin®, Titus®, Frick®, Penn®, Sabroe®, Simplex®, Ansul® and Grinnell®. For more information, visit www.johnsoncontrols.com or follow us @johnsoncontrols on Twitter.

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BOSTON, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Like the Beatles in the 60s, Tesla has arguably achieved the feat of being simultaneously the best and most popular at what they do. As the IDTechEx report «Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2021–2041» discusses, Tesla enters a new market and quickly becomes the top-selling electric vehicle maker: from its home market of California in the US to the major auto markets of Europe, to South Korea and China, in a conquest that has made CEO Elon Musk the richest man in the universe.

What’s different about a Tesla? The ‘big three’ enabling technologies commonly cited for electric vehicles are the battery, electric traction motor, and power electronics. Tesla is on the bleeding edge of all; so, while its stock price is perhaps ‘too high IMO’, its sheer pace of innovation is what earns it a seat at the leader’s table and its many votes from consumers. In this article, IDTechEx explores Tesla’s innovations in the field of power electronics and some of the new materials opportunities being created.

Silicon Carbide Inverters

For electric vehicles, power electronics are critical for several functions, but perhaps most critical of all is the main inverter, which converts the DC battery into three-phase AC for the smooth operation of the electric traction motor. At the core of power electronics devices is power-switch technologies (transistors), which have already seen more than five generations of advancement. Today, silicon insulated-gate bipolar transistors (Si IGBTs) dominate the medium power range, including electric vehicle inverters. We are now transitioning to a sixth-generation, with wide-bandgap semiconductor materials taking over: silicon carbide (SiC) for high voltage/power applications and gallium nitride (GaN) for lower-voltage and power. This shift allows smaller and higher-density power modules, operating at higher temperatures, and creates new materials opportunities throughout the power module packaging.

Why is Tesla’s inverter innovative? Well, with the release of the Model 3 in 2018, Tesla became the first company to add SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), sourced from ST Microelectronics, in an in-house inverter design. The overall design has several innovations beyond the use of SiC packages, but this is the main one. It has led to the overall weight of the inverter (4.8kg) to be under half that of the 2019 Nissan Leaf (11.15kg) and over a third less than that of the Jaguar I-PACE (8.23kg), which use Si IGBT inverters and off-the-shelf parts.

The use of SiC MOSFETs further creates new materials opportunities as the limits of traditional materials are stretched. To deal with the greater areal power densities, a Cu lead frame (metal structures that carry signals from the die to the rest of the inverter) is used over more conventional Al wire bonds. The die-attach material has also transitioned away from conventional solders towards Ag sintered die-attach materials to handle the higher temperatures.

What’s the catch? As with any emerging technology, the cost has been the main barrier for uptake of SiC MOSFETs and other enabling materials in the power module packages. But Tesla seems to have solved this too: its inverter has undergone a remarkable cost decline in only three years. The chart below shows an experience curve, calculated by IDTechEx, based on cost estimates for the Model 3 inverter in 2018 and a second-gen of the same inverter from the Model Y in 2020. As can be seen, Tesla’s SiC inverter already looks to be on par with Si IGBT modules used in the 2019 versions of the Nissan Leaf and the Jaguar I-PACE.

The result is Tesla’s overall inverter and permanent magnet motor combination is one of (if not the) best on the market, achieving a 97% efficiency, yielding more range without increasing expensive battery capacity. All at a similar cost to the older technologies being displaced.

To learn more about innovations in electric cars and the new materials opportunities being created, the IDTechEx reports «Advanced Electric Cars 2020-2040» and «Materials for Electric Vehicles: Electric Motors, Battery Cells & Packs, HV Cabling 2020-2030» cover trends in the core enabling powertrain technologies, from motors to batteries to autonomous vehicles. Visit www.IDTechEx.com/cars and www.IDTechEx.com/EVMat to learn more.

For more information on the overview report «Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2021–2041», please visit www.IDTechEx.com/EV, or for the full portfolio of Electric Vehicle research available from IDTechEx, please visit www.IDTechEx.com/Research/EV. 

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TAMPA, Florida, 16 de febrero de 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Financial Information Technologies, LLC («Fintech»), proveedor de soluciones comerciales líderes para la industria de bebidas alcohólicas, anunció hoy una sociedad estratégica renovada con la National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA), la voz líder que representa a 3,000 distribuidores independientes de cerveza de los Estados Unidos. En conjunto, Fintech y NBWA proporcionan programas y recursos de colaboración a los distribuidores de cerveza de todo el país.

Desde que se creó la relación en 2014, Fintech y NBWA han generado un impacto significativo en la industria de la cerveza de los Estados Unidos. En los últimos seis años y medio, Fintech ha incorporado casi 150 miembros de NBWA a su programa de gestión de bebidas alcohólicas, y ha logrado una rebaja de cientos de miles de dólares para NBWA y sus miembros. Fintech también ha trabajado estrechamente con Lester Jones, economista principal de NBWA, para aportar conocimientos fundamentales a los datos de la industria de la cerveza a través de InfoSource® de Fintech, presentando la información a través de contenido de la asociación.

«Durante los últimos siete años, Fintech ha sido un excelente socio para NBWA, y me emociona ver que la relación continúa», expresó Craig Purser, presidente y director ejecutivo de NBWA. «Durante años, Fintech ha estado aportando un excelente valor a los miembros de NBWA, pero ese valor nunca fue tan evidente hasta este último año. Su capacidad de ayudar a los distribuidores a realizar actividades comerciales seguras y sin contacto durante toda la pandemia de COVID-19 ha sido de gran ayuda para que siga avanzando la cadena de suministro».

«Nos sentimos honrados de renovar nuestra alianza con NBWA. Son una excelente organización, y realmente reflejan nuestra pasión por ofrecer recursos de vanguardia a la industria de la cerveza», sostuvo Tad Phelps, director ejecutivo de Fintech. «Esta relación permite que Fintech y NBWA tengan la oportunidad de desarrollar nuestras redes y ayudar a los distribuidores de todo el país a mejorar las eficiencias operativas y los conocimientos de datos».

Además de los constantes esfuerzos de marketing conjuntos y la participación en la Convención Anual de NBWA, el nuevo acuerdo de tres años ofrece a los miembros de NBWA un descuento en las tarifas anuales de soporte y mantenimiento de Fintech. Además, este nuevo contrato duplica el descuento actual por crecimiento para los distribuidores elegibles, mientras desarrollan su red de comercio minorista a través de Fintech.

Acerca de NBWA

La National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) representa a 3,000 distribuidores independientes de cerveza de los Estados Unidos que brindan servicios a todos los estados, distritos congresuales y mercados de medios en todo el país. Con licencia a nivel federal y estatal, los distribuidores de cerveza distribuyen botellas, latas, cajas y barriles desde un fabricante o importador de cerveza a las tiendas comerciales, restaurantes y otras cuentas de comercio minorista con licencia a través de un sistema normativo transparente y responsable. Los distribuidores crean marcas de todos los tamaños, desde empresas familiares de cervezas hasta nuevas marcas emergentes e importadores de todo el mundo, y generan muchas opciones para los consumidores, a la vez que generan más de 140,000 puestos de trabajo de calidad en sus propias comunidades. Los distribuidores de cerveza trabajan a nivel local para cuidar a las comunidades, al patrocinar programas que promueven el consumo responsable, combaten el manejo en estado de ebriedad y reducen el consumo de alcohol en los menores de edad.

Acerca de Fintech

Fintech es el proveedor comercial líder de tecnologías accesibles desarrolladas para simplificar la gestión de bebidas alcohólicas en empresas de cualquier tamaño dedicadas a la venta de alcohol. Empoderamos a tiendas minoristas, distribuidores y proveedores al automatizar los procesos manuales esenciales y los conocimientos de datos. Con más de 30 años de experiencia en la industria y de confiabilidad inquebrantable, Fintech genera retorno inmediato sobre la inversión de más de 635,000 relaciones comerciales en todo el país, al simplificar las funciones diarias que son necesarias para proteger y desarrollar los márgenes de las bebidas alcohólicas. Para obtener más información, visite www.fintech.com. 

FINANCIAL-INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. es propietaria de la marca comercial FINTECH, del logotipo de la F estilizada y de otras marcas comerciales y de servicios, muchas de las cuales están registradas en la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas Registradas de Estados Unidos. El software subyacente que respalda los servicios ofrecidos por FINANCIAL-INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, y el contenido de este sitio web, tienen protección de derechos de autor de ©2020 FINANCIAL-INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. Todos los derechos reservados.

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