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Skylark Restaurants in Japan to offer free EV recharging at 900 locations

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The Skylark restaurant group in Japan plans to offer free EV public recharging at their 900 locations around Japan, with no obligation to be a customer of the restaurant. Skylark will be gradually supplementing these with fast chargers as well, so customers will be able to get a full charge while they eat. Integrity Exports.

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Electrovaya launches Li-ion residential energy storage system; 3 kWh – 20 kWh

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For consumers subject to time-of-use charges, the EnergyBlock can be used to store off-peak power to be used later during peak times, lowering the amount of peak-rate costs for the user. We’re expecting this product to be very popular in places like Germany and Japan as they move away from nuclear power towards sustainable alternative energy.

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Nissan and ENEL announce V2G system, launch smart grid trials in Europe

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Endesa 10 kW bidirectional charging point for EVs. ZEM2ALL was a joint initiative between Spain and Japan, supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), and Malaga City Council. Click to enlarge.

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Ghosn: Renault-Nissan needs both high- and low-spec EVs to be player in China market; ongoing importance of gov’t support

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But at the same time what is really evolving are the cheap electric cars. Why does Europe have more than 50% of its market in diesel when the United States has zero percent or Japan has zero percent? So we have to be very clear, we need to lower the price and increase the range. We are not selling it and it’s a problem.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment.

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New MIT metal-mesh membrane could solve longstanding problems with liquid metal displacement batteries; inexpensive grid power storage

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Sadoway considers this development a breakthrough, because for the first time in five decades, this type of battery—the advantages of which include cheap, abundant raw materials, very safe operational characteristics, and an ability to go through many charge-discharge cycles without degradation—could finally become practical.

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134. WHAT WE LEARNED FROM 100M SMARTPHONES

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Each category is pushing the specifications of the battery — and they all share similar themes: more charge capacity, faster charging, battery longevity, less weight, less cost, and absolute safety! These used cheap plastic lenses but corrected for their optical deficiencies using software.