Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2012

IBM has teamed with ESB ecars to implement a fully integrated smarter charging IT system that will help manage electric vehicle public charge points, which are being rolled out across Ireland by ESB ecars. This project is bolstered by Ireland’s energy policy to increase sustainable energy use in the transportation sector by 2020.

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Ireland EV Smart Charging Grid 261

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on a new pilot project that will allow communication between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. This project will demonstrate and test an electric vehicle’s ability to receive and respond to charge instructions based on the grid condition and the vehicle’s battery state.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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Wind PHEV Cost Of Power 286

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Four California state agencies and the independent power grid operator have released a new plan and vision for California’s energy future in advance of the Air Resources Board consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a third of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2020.

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Plug-in California 2020 Transportation 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The report, Bucks for balancing: can plug-in vehicles of the future extract cash—and carbon—from the power grid? , is based on a research collaboration between a team of engineers from Ricardo and National Grid, the operator of the high voltage electricity transmission system within Great Britain (GB).

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Grid Plug-in Plug Market 247

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The electrification of transportation, coupled with the transition to renewable energy sources, contributes to a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Public Charging Stations: Smart cities recognize the importance of providing convenient access to charging for EV owners.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 98

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

While plug-in electric vehicles will not threaten the integrity of the power grid as a whole, they will have an immediate local impact on neighborhood distribution infrastructure. EV IT systems are needed to automatically manage charging; during times of extreme weather, demand can exceed supply throughout the day.

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2015 2010 Standards Grid 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Ideal Power Converters (IPC) announced that the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable. Energy Laboratory (NREL) has successfully demonstrated vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities using IPC’s bi-directional Battery Converter. IPC’s Battery Converter will provide bi-directional power between the EV.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Because [Ford] can provide the hardware, but ultimately, our country has to decide is this where we really want to go and if so, how are we going to really develop the smart grid in a way that works and allows the utilities to actually speak to each other and trade power, ubiquity of charging and all those things.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The group then used a combined forecasting and backcasting approach to calculate the results: from 2010 to 2020, global cost and performance data were forecasted, based on proprietary industry data; after 2020, on projected learning rates. Charging times are also significantly longer: 6-8 hours using normal charging equipment.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Critical stakeholders–utilities, system operators, fleet operators, vehicle manufacturers and policymakers–must act now to begin forecasting and planning for the medium- and long-term impacts of fleet electrification. They also need to identify the priority investments in the needed grid enhancements to accommodate increased charging demand.

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