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

Charged EVs

The California legislature is considering a bill that would require most EVs sold in the state to be bidirectional-capable by 2027. During the recent California heat wave, Nuvve helped to reduce peak demands on the grid through the Emergency Load Reduction Program, using bidirectional-capable school buses to feed energy back to the grid.

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Beyond Tesla: Why Your Business Needs Charging Stations Compatible with All Types of EVs

EV Connect

Starting with the very first model, Tesla reintroduced the idea of electric vehicles to Americans wary of giving up on gas, and reimagined the way EVs can be: sleek, sexy, powerful, and adaptable enough to stay on the cutting edge of technology. today, open charging networks can serve more drivers. With more than 1.4

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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

Green Car Congress

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday.

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School Transport Goes Electric

EV Connect

Since 2010, EV Connect ’s path to expand and provide smart electric vehicle charging infrastructure has led them to branch out into numerous industries and sectors. One of EV Connect’s latest collaborations is with the Sunnyvale School District (SSD) in northern California. The idea to go all-electric was raised and eventually adopted.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Although charging infrastructure is beginning to find its way into cities, it may be awhile until they are available in residential neighborhoods en masse. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.