Battery-charger-control designers face a fundamental choice: to use a part from the rich selection of dedicated charge-control ICs available from many vendors or to use a programmable microcontroller.

Recharging a mobile phone's internal battery usually occurs under control of a proprietary charging algorithm that resides in the baseband controller. The charger connects to the internal battery ...

GM has issued a Service Update related to a fix for an issue with the battery energy control module in certain affected units of the 2022-2024 GMC Hummer EV. Tagged with service update number ...

Certain units of the 2023 Cadillac Lyriq and 2024 Cadillac Lyriq are included in a new Service Update from General Motors, which covers a fix for a battery energy control module issue. Affected ...

Modern smart battery chargers are amazingly advanced pieces of kit, so much so that some people are left wondering if they really need such sophisticated (and pricey) equipment for the seemingly ...