A power inverter turns your car into a rolling outlet. That’s useful when you travel, camp, work out of a truck, or ride out a storm with devices that still need juice. The risk is simple: bad power ...

Tests on power-electronic systems are indispensable, but they can’t all happen in hardware. Engineers can obtain exact operating models of inverters using virtual simulations of circuit operation and, ...

As occupants of a vehicle—both driving and riding—our list of plug-in gadgets is ever-growing. Gotta charge your laptop on the way to the office? Need a charging port for that. What about that plug-in ...