Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2009

Plug-in electric vehicles (i.e., plug-in hybrids, extended range electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles) are smart loads, and so fall into the third element. No communications connectivity between PEV and utility in Non-AMI utility environments. EVSE=Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. PLC=Power Line Communications.

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Grid Plug-in Standards Plug 239

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

High-voltage DC current is more dangerous and harder to interrupt than the comparatively sedate 48 volts used in smaller vehicles. I’m on the SAE Truck and Bus Electrical Systems Committee, and I know we are trying to write 48-volt standards now. When will they need to go higher than 1,000 volts?

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Standards Market Volt Vehicles 73

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

If you’ve been wondering just how real the new Chevy Volt that gets 230 mpg in city driving is , well just take a look for yourself. At least GM sent this nifty printed banner explaining all about the new J1772 industry standard recharging plug. They even had a real plug connected to their toy car on the exhibit hall.

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i-MiEV 2009 Plug-in Volt 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California. kWh of usable energy at 380 volts and weighs 300 kilograms (661 lb). The Audi A3 e-tron can be recharged in about nine hours with a 230-volt household socket. It stores 26.5

Audi 244

Audi Electric Vehicles Batteries Battery 244

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

NREL presented its initial calorimeter—initially fabricated by Calorimetry Sciences Corporation and later improved upon by NREL—at the Long Beach Battery Conference in January 1998. The new isothermal calorimeter will be based on patent-pending technology developed by a team of NREL researchers.

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Li-ion Commercial Batteries Battery 191