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The demand for charging piles is getting more and more popular

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Taking ABB as an example, the brand will be launched in Europe by the end of 2021 and will be launched in the United States, Latin America and Asia Pacific in 2022, and has sold more than 460,000 charging piles in more than 88 countries and regions. This is not an isolated case.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

You could do V2G through the DC port of the vehicle—this is what we are doing with school buses here in California, where our charging station converts AC to DC and then connects to the DC port of the vehicle to provide power. Then it takes the DC from the bus, or car, and converts it back to AC to provide power for the grid.

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Tritium launches a Veefil range of fast chargers for EVs

Green Car Congress

Tritium, the Australian developer and manufacturer of the Veefil 50kW DC fast charger for electric vehicles ( earlier post ), will showcase three new chargers on its stand at eCarTec in Munich this week. They also maintain the Veefil’s high design standards and are low cost to install and maintain. Veefil 22kW. Veefil 22kW.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

million: ALD Technical Solutions is developing light-weight, easy-to-install, long-lasting, and cost-effective structural composite reinforcement system which will be installed and cured-in-place around existing Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced transmission lines to increase power capacity and power efficiency, and also decrease sag.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

Cars That Think

to the 20,000 km cable that connects Asia with North America and South America. The foundations for these structures are expensive to construct and difficult to install in deep sea environments, as the cables have to be buried in the seafloor. Installation and maintenance is easier to accomplish in shallow waters.

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Price Parity is Not the Key to EV Adoption in the US

EV Adoption

BMW, Mercedes, and Volkswagen have all not shipped certain electric models to the US and Toyota is shipping the majority of their RAV4 Prime PHEVs to Europe and Asia. The shortfall tends to occur on busy holidays, peak commute times, and with DC fast chargers for non-Tesla drivers on interstates and road-trip routes.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. And with EV maintenance you are less exposed to being ripped off buy the ICE car repairman. Range is another issue if electric cars are expected to be adopted by the average American and not just used as city cars. — Larry 4.

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