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Iron-air batteries, dynamic wireless charging, EQS first drive: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

A dynamic wireless charging project could put the tech on the Interstate in Indiana. And are iron-air batteries good for a smart-energy grid? The 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS establishes the serene side of a growing cohort of large electric luxury cars. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Electric Vehicles 101: V2G Charging & The Grid

CleanTechnica EVs

Do more EVs mean more pain, or more HELP for the aging US energy grid?

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

Green Car Congress

A fast MVDC breaker is an important component to enable uprating existing alternating-current distribution corridors in congested urban areas to MVDC, and connect distributed renewable energy sources to concentrated demand for growing applications such as electric vehicle charging.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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