CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

NREL Research Highlights Vehicle-to-Grid Charging Benefits for Drivers and Utilities, Widespread electrification initiatives

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JANUARY 19, 2022

A team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has completed a literature review on the potential value of EV managed charging. Their findings, published in Energy & Environmental Science , provide a comprehensive look at how EVs and the grid could work together as the electric and transportation sectors become intertwined.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

With electric vehicles becoming more common, the risks and hazards of a cyberattack on electric vehicle charging equipment and systems also increases. Johnson and his team recently published an open-access summary of known electric vehicle charger vulnerabilities in the journal Energies.

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MAY 23, 2022

In continued efforts to support the growing electric vehicle (EV) segment, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The PLC device is based on Qualcomm Technologies’ market-proven QCA700X family of products, which have been widely adopted in EV on-board charging units and charging stations across the globe. —Lars Boeryd, Sr.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A groundbreaking settlement agreement between Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the Vehicle-Grid Integration Council (VGIC), Electrify America LLC, and the Public Advocates Office at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 11, 2022

New Research Explores Potential Value of Implementing EV Managed Charging To Move Toward Realizing Effective Vehicle-Grid Integration It is 5 p.m., and you arrive home from work when it is peak demand for the grid.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

billion of electric vehicle revenue by 2025. The company now expects its 2022 electric vehicle revenue to grow to approximately $850 million—more than double what it was in 2021. BorgWarner has just added Rhombus Energy Solutions, a provider of charging solutions in the North American market. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at the MIT Energy Initiative have investigated the grid impacts of scaled up highway fast-charging (HFC) infrastructure by using an operations model of the 2033 Texas power grid with uniquely high spatial and temporal resolution. Transmission network upgrades can also effectively mitigate grid-HFC interactions.

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MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. Specifically, after 345 charge/discharge cycles at high current, this acidic reaction mechanism retained 82.8%

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JUNE 16, 2021

This RFI is being jointly issued by EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office and OE’s Advanced Grid Research and Development Division. Through this RFI, DOE is soliciting input in five categories: An evaluation of the use of EVs to maintain the reliability of the electric grid. The impact of grid integration on EVs.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Wallbox is working with Kia America to bring bidirectional charging to Kia’s EV9 customers. Wallbox expects Quasar 2 to be the first EV charger allowing bidirectional charging with the Kia EV9. Quasar 2 is a next-generation 11.5 Quasar 2 is a next-generation 11.5

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JANUARY 21, 2022

The California Electric Transportation Coalition and California utilities announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support a California Regional Charging Network. The MOU encourages cooperation and leadership among the California utilities to build out a regional network of chargers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As the adoption of electric cars, trucks, and buses gains momentum, many people are wondering if the electric grid is up to the task of charging all of those vehicles.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2023

A recent report from Ergon Energy highlights the need for electric vehicle driver encouragement to charge intelligently to protect the grid. CleanTechnica has published many articles about grid resilience and EV charging installs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 18, 2023

Some people are scared that electric vehicles will crash the utility grid. In two recent reports, researchers debunk such nonsense.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 30, 2023

Its newest product, which was launched in September of 2022, is seeking to provide off-grid charging for electric vehicles across the US. Yotta Energies, a clean energy startup based out of Austin, Texas, has been making waves in the solar field since its founding in 2017.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

NREL Analyst Luke Lavin Discusses Pitfalls and Opportunities of Managed Charging Approaches This installment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Tell Me Something Grid series features Luke Lavin, a member of NREL’s Grid Planning and Analysis Center. Distributed energy […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

"EV charging will crash the grid," Henny Penny cried. "We must run and tell the king!" " EV FUD is everywhere. Here's the truth.

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JUNE 16, 2020

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since its inception, the US electric grid has mostly operated smoothly as one synchronous machine with a one-directional flow of electricity to meet the nation’s predictable power needs. The US electric grid is experiencing something of a mid-life crisis.

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MAY 2, 2023

Plug Power unveiled a new high-power stationary fuel cell system for charging commercial electric vehicle (EV) fleets. Plug’s standard 18,000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank combined with its new megawatt-scale PEM fuel cell solution can provide more than 60 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy—enough to charge more than 600 EVs.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary that manages all activities related to charging and energy for the Group in Europe, the Elia Group and its start-up re.alto signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Berlin. The MoU underscores the signatories’ shared vision of integrating electric cars into the electricity system.

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MAY 2, 2023

The ICE-22 V2X, ICE-44 V2X and ICE-66 V2X chargers provide fleet operators with chargers that optimize operations, increase cost efficiencies while supporting grid stability and enable them to qualify for electric vehicle (EV) grant funds that include a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) compatibility requirement.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

FreeWire Technologies, a global electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy solutions provider and a manufacturer of ultrafast, battery-integrated EV charging stations and power solutions ( earlier post ), announced a program to make available battery-integrated electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and solutions for Chevron-branded stations.

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MARCH 8, 2022

A new report from RMI has found that optimized charging of electric vehicles, which involves automatically and strategically shifting when an EV charges, could significantly reduce transportation sector emissions, and could potentially result in an average of 800 pounds of CO? saved per vehicle annually.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 27, 2022

“If everyone came home at the end of the day and plugged in their electric car to charge, the grid would fail. Electric car drivers are just virtue signaling hypocrites as long as there is [insert any number here] fossil fuels powering the grid. […]. We will all end up having to live like the Amish.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

continued] The post Beam Global Ramping Up Rollout Of Its Off-Grid Solar-Powered EV Charging Infrastructure appeared first on CleanTechnica. Innovation often springs from solving a problem and realizing that an entirely new approach might be the best way forward.

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APRIL 10, 2022

A realistic pilot test conducted by Porsche, the grid operator TransnetBW and consulting firm Intelligent Energy System Services (IE2S), has demonstrated that electrical balancing power can be stored in the high-voltage batteries of an intelligent swarm of electric cars. —Dr Rainer Pflaum, CFO TransnetBW.

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MARCH 16, 2022

Called the Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System (ESS), Pramac’s technology—which features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE batteries taken from prototype and engineering test vehicles—supplies zero-emission power where access to the grid supply is limited or unavailable.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Virtual Peaker and Fermata Energy are partnering to integrate Fermata Energy’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with Virtual Peaker’s cloud-based residential energy demand response platform used by utilities across the country. Fermata Energy V2X bi-directional charger.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 13, 2024

EnergyHub announces that they are collaborating with Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) to improve the electric vehicle (EV) ownership experience. continued] The post EnergyHub & Toyota Collaborate to Support the Electrical Grid and Improve EV Ownership Experience appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

The UK Government has published an Electric Vehicle Smart Charging Action Plan. The plan sets out steps being taken to seize on the significant potential of smart charging and make it the preferred method of long duration charging by 2025. —Energy and Climate Minister Graham Stuart.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

An influx of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging without coordination could prove challenging to the nation’s electric grid, according to research conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This effect is exacerbated when higher in-home power charging is adopted.

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MAY 18, 2020

A new report from Guidehouse Insights provides forecasts for blockchain-enabled charging hardware deployment, electricity demand from blockchain-based platforms, and revenue from electric vehicle (EV) charging and integration applications through 2029. compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

With soaring oil prices and global policy support, electric vehicles will become increasingly popular. Slowly electric vehicles will become the mainstream of the market. Next, let’s learn about the working principle and charging principle of electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

Mack Trucks , part of the Volvo Group, has built a mobile off-grid charging system that’s integrated into the body of a Mack MD Electric truck. The system’s raison d’être is to help Mack customers test Class 6-8 electric vehicles, and evaluate their feasibility for their fleets.

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MARCH 20, 2018

A UPS-led consortium has deployed new smart-grid charging technology in London that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) without the need for the expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. —Peter Harris, director of sustainability, UPS Europe.

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