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An e-scooter, a PHEV and an angry man

EV Central

And there are zero emissions if you recharge a scooter’s batteries from a sustainable source. It means you can travel, should you wish, a substantial distance between charges. Basically, if your electric car or plug-in (PHEV) vehicle has V2L tech, it has built-in bi-directional charging and an AC power outlet.

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The Importance of Managed EV Charging

EV Match

Managed EV charging can enable dozens of beneficial features to EV chargers such as access control, payment processing, data reports, demand response eligibility, and more. Here we break down the benefits of managed or “smart” charging to drivers, property owners, utilities, and society at large.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries.

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Seven-day test: Living with the Porsche Taycan RWD

EV Central

A panoramic glass roof ($3370), Bose audio ($2840), heated front seats ($910), ambient lighting ($890) and Porsche logo puddle light ($600) substantially add to the bill and are hardly imperatives. We’re showing 100 percent charge and a range of 475km. Except there’s no wireless phone charging, annoyingly.

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2023 Kia EV6 GT review: Mega-popular electric vehicle put to the seven-day test

EV Central

Then its stylishly integrated door handles, giant 21-inch five-spoke alloys, clamshell bonnet and strikingly detailed LED lights everywhere (I don’t want to think about their replacement cost). There’s serious intricacy to much of the body design – especially around its sculpted, light fantastic rear end. Theatrical inside too.

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Nissan Qashqai e-Power review: Is it really an almost-EV?

EV Central

Time spent driving the small crossover on motorways, country roads and city streets means we’re now able to judge whether Nissan is over-hyping or under-selling e-Power. The only thing its petrol-burning ICE does is power a generator that supplies most of the juice that goes to the electric motor. Nothing else.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. Battery technologies are advancing rapidly.