Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

ABB will provide two fast-chargers for Scania electric buses in Östersund, Sweden. The chargers are based on OppCharge , an open interface for the automated charging of electric buses from any manufacturer, and use a pantograph on the infrastructure to connect the bus to the charging point.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2023

years at R&D centers in China, Sweden, the UK and Germany, SOA’s flexibility maximizes interior space, offering multiple seating and load-carrying configurations. By combining space with long ranges of up to 695km and ultra-fast charging, SOA maximizes convenience, with minimal downtime. Developed over the past 2.5

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Baua Electric

MARCH 24, 2024

Freight mobility company Einride has opened a charging hub for heavy-duty EVs in Lynwood, California. Einride’s Smartcharger Station has 65 chargers, and can charge up to 200 vehicles a day. The site was built in collaboration with charging infrastructure developer Voltera. Moller-Maersk.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The personal mobility companion BMW Connected already comprises many functions designed to help users with their daily mobility needs. Using the Open Mobility Cloud as a basis, it connects touchpoints such as smartphones and smartwatches with users’ cars, thus weaving the car into their digital lives.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2013

Close-up of the charging mechanism on the demo TOSA bus. ABB has developed and is demonstrating a high-capacity “flash charging” system for electric buses. The system enables onboard batteries to be charged in 15 seconds with a 400 kW boost at selected stops using a roof-mounted system (“Flash station”). Source: ABB.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Tesla Superchargers are now the latest target in the Swedish labor conflict as a union in charge of servicing, planning, constructing, and connecting EV chargers said it will no longer acknowledge the company’s needs beginning on March 4. Luckily, some of the strikes have softened.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2020

The system scales through a central interface hub, which can connect in parallel up to five self-contained Voltpacks, each containing three liquid-cooled, industrial-grade battery Voltpack Cores. If further power or storage capacity is needed, this can be fulfilled simply by connecting multiple Voltpack Mobile Systems in parallel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2021

Magna unveiled its all-new connected plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) drivetrain and next-gen battery electric (BEV) drive systems. Both systems were on full display at the company’s Winter Test driving location in northern Sweden. Magna EtelligentEco PHEV.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Danish electric mobility operator CLEVER will expand its charging network in Denmark and neighboring countries with 100 ABB multi-standard Terra 53 DC fast charging stations. The chargers will be installed in Denmark and in neighboring countries through partners, including a first collaboration with Öresundskraft in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Charging and swapping network. In 2022, NIO will continue to expand its charging and swapping network. After entering Norway, NIO will introduce its products and user-centric service to Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark in 2022. Deliveries are expected to start in September 2022. Expansion outside China.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Electric freight mobility specialist Einride has opened its first Smartcharger station in the US, launching as the largest operational charging site for heavy-duty EVs on the continent. The new station is strategically located in a busy freight corridor, providing electric truck drivers with 65 charging piles powered by Voltera.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Vattenfall Network Solutions can provide connections to the electricity grid along with the electrical and hydrogen infrastructure for a vehicle fleet or depot. Vattenfall currently operates more than 22,000 electric vehicle charging points in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2014

ABB and Volvo Buses are partnering to co-develop and to commercialize electric and hybrid buses with open standards-based direct current (DC) fast charging systems. That system enables onboard batteries to be charged in 15 seconds with a 400 kW boost at selected stops using a roof-mounted system (“Flash station”). Earlier post.)

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Those vehicles are hungry for electrons, driving growth in charging stations and the infrastructure to support them. The beating heart of EV charging lies in the software and management systems that enable this dynamic market. EV charging software manages much more than just topping up the battery in an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The use of this communications methodology, which is used in vehicle-to-infrastructure communications (in this case vehicle wireless charging assembly), is basically interconnecting wireless charging with the new connected vehicles environment. Click to enlarge. —Jesse Schneider.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The demonstration, held together with bus operator Keolis, took place at Keolis’ bus depot just outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. The industry-common charging interface OppCharge is ideally suited for autonomous charging, eliminating the need to connect power cables to the bus in the depot.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

By providing a flexible and efficient method of wireless power transfer, CTEK will begin to develop a line of products that will bring a new level of convenience and ease to battery charging. CTEK SWEDEN AB develops and manufactures battery chargers for all types of lead-acid and lithium batteries for both private and professional use.

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Electra Vehicles

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The electric vehicle industry continues to fortify its advances in all-electric driving with features beyond the battery like Over-the-Air (OTA) updates and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) connectivity, both of which create smarter, higher performing, and more connected vehicles. Electra's 5G Connectivity for Battery Packs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The aim of the ELECTRIC project is to create an open-access fast-charging corridor situated along major motorways connecting Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands via a total of 155 chargers, with up to 30 in the Netherlands, 23 in Denmark, 35 in Sweden and 67 in Germany. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With the rapid expansion of Scania’s electrified range of trucks, buses and engines, the company plans to, over several years, invest more than 1 billion SEK (US$116 million) in a battery assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden. Vehicles are parked adjacent to the lab and connected to testing equipment. The company will also invest US18.4

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

A full charge takes about eight hours; range on a full charge is up to 150 kilometers (93 miles). The Lindells will charge the electrical car in a smart charging station in the carport. All surplus electricity can be used to charge the family’s electrically-powered Volvo or be used in the joint electricity grid.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Uniti, also from Sweden, revealed its One, an urban electric minicar for the no-frills yet always-connected set. Volvo introduced its first electric car yesterday, and elaborated on a plan that will pay owners of its plug-in hybrids to, well, plug in. And Kia has officially nudged its Soul EV ahead one model year.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The blaze had allegedly been kicked off by an electric scooter that was connected to a charger on the premises, according to reporting by the investigative tech news site Rest of World. The immediate fallout has been new restrictions that hamper gig workers’ ability to charge their two-wheeled EVs. percent, or 20 times the frequency.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Polestar, the electric performance car brand jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding, unveiled the Polestar 2 electric fastback in an online reveal from Polestar’s headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. Polestar 2 will make its first public appearance at the Geneva International Motor Show next week.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

Volvo started doing exactly this in Sweden and Norway two years ago, in collaboration with local authorities. In 2015, Volvo Cars started a collaboration on sharing safety data with the road administration authorities in Sweden and Norway. —Håkan Samuelsson, President & CEO, Volvo Car Group.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

A first pilot is intended to start later this year at its manufacturing plant in Torslanda, Sweden. Other investments include electric car charging firm Freewire and Forciot, which develops connected, printable and stretchable electronics.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation, Ericsson, the utility company Göteborg Energi and the Viktoria Institute are collaborating in the research project ELVIIS (Electric Vehicle Intelligent Infra Structure) to develop a concept for using intelligent infrastructure for the smart on-board charging of plug-in vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a nanometric graphite-like anode for sodium ion (Na + storage), formed by stacked graphene sheets functionalized only on one side, termed Janus graphene. The estimated sodium storage up to C 6.9 Na is comparable to graphite for standard lithium ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

As well as a small fleet of HX2s, other prototype machines that make-up the electric site system include a prototype electric hybrid wheel loader and a grid-connected excavator. Volvo CE is coordinating the project and is in charge of developing the machines and systems.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

EVs Are Here to Stay, But There’s Work to Do EVs are here to stay, and funding opportunities for zero-emission fleets will drive exponential growth for these vehicles and their charging solutions in 2024. As charging infrastructure expands, longer-range vehicles will come onto the market. However, the U.S.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 21, 2023

With one charging break along the route, Volvo’s heavy-duty electric truck impressively operates continuously for 12 hours and has a capacity of 74 tons. By delivering three large electric Volvo FH trucks in June Mattson Keri in Gothenburg, Sweden, Volvo reached yet another significant milestone.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

Particular attention is being given to aspects which are very demanding for electric cars—air conditioning and charging, as well as cooling the battery, drive system and control units in extreme heat. How does an almost fully charged battery respond to further charging? What influence does the heat have on operating range?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

At the same, ZOE owners can benefit from a range of new connected services and equipment upgrades. The ZOE continues to be equipped with the Quick Charge function to take full advantage of the maximum capacity of fast charging points located predominantly along motorway corridors. New connected services: Z.E.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2019

Automated control of cars may enable drivers to achieve more fuel savings than if they were completely in charge, according to a new study conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Volvo Cars. The study findings are detailed in a paper in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

ElectReon has successfully wirelessly charged a fully electric 40-ton truck and trailer at a test facility in Sweden. The next step will be to charge the truck through dynamic wireless power transfer on a public road in Gotland, Sweden. The test took place in winter conditions, with temperatures around zero C.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new type of high-power integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles. In essence, the proposed system uses the motor as a grid-connected generator with extra terminals. Source: Chalmers. Click to enlarge. —Haghbin (2013).

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

Several of these firms confirmed their progress at Silicon Valley Connected & Charged Symposium, hosted by software giant SAP. According to a new report from Navigant Research, worldwide revenue from connected vehicle systems is expected to grow from $96.3 Cars will drive themselves and connect with others.

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