article thumbnail

Duke Energy partnering with Ford in V2G pilot

Green Car Congress

Stored energy drawn from the electric vehicles’ batteries will help balance the power grid during periods of highest energy demand. million households and businesses in central and western North Carolina, including Charlotte, Durham and the Triad. Duke Energy Carolinas serves about 2.1

Ford 199
article thumbnail

Road Test: 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Limited Plug-in Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

The Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid has two main ways the battery is charged–plugging in or through regenerative braking when slowing or stopping. kilowatt onboard charger will replenish an empty battery to the maximum 32 miles driving range in about two hours using a 240-volt Level 2 charger. Charlotte to Orlando?

article thumbnail

Road Test: 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

The Pacifica Hybrid has a regenerative braking system, which recharges the 16-kilowatt-hour (kWh) lithium-ion (li-ion) battery. So driving around town, stuck in stop-and-go rush hour highway traffic, or coasting down hills recharges the battery. The battery recharge and electric mile range are metered instantly by dash gauges.

article thumbnail

US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000.

Emissions 256
article thumbnail

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors for The Scale Up of High Energy Density Cobalt-Free Cathodes for Advanced Lithium ion Batteries, $1,200,000. Electric Power Research Institute (Charlotte, North Carolina). First Solar Inc. Santa Clara, California). Blue Frontier, LLC (Parkland, Florida).

article thumbnail

EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

There were two Level 2 charging stations about six blocks away in a grocery store parking lot, but that was not a convenient or reliable option. One EV charger maker, Atom Power located in Charlotte, N.C., Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., has no EV chargers in its five-story indoor parking garage.