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What Is Bidirectional Charging? Understanding the Benefits for Both Drivers and Businesses

EV Connect

With bidirectional charging, the batteries in our vehicles can not only provide fuel for the road but energy for our homes and even our shared electrical grid. This conversion can happen within the charger or in the vehicle, depending on which device is equipped with a converter. This can further reduce your utility costs.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

Green Car Congress

The full list of application development awards follows: Full Funding: Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales, Salman Habib (ANL) with LANL, LBNL. Performance Prediction of Multiphase Energy Conversion Devices with Discrete Element, Particle-in-Cell, and Two-Fluid Models (MFIX-Exa), Madhava Syamlal (NETL) with LBNL, University of Colorado.

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How to Navigate EV Charging Rebates and Successfully Fund Your Home Charging Station

EV Match

Conversely, the abundance of available electricity during off-peak hours provides cost-efficiency for everyone. Explore This List of Helpful Resources for EV Charging Rebates and Incentives. National Grid – Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island. National Grid is a large utility company in the Northeast.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. In that respect, beamed power from space is like nuclear fusion, except at least 25 years behind.

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Top 180+ Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Electrical, Mechanical, Management, AI, Environmental Engineering, etc.

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Today we have an updated list of projects that includes the latest trends in the industry as well. The list includes technical and management-related projects. I haven’t organized the list but you can find electrical, mechanical, and environmental engineering projects in this list.

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PHEV Energy Bill

Plug In Partners

SEC 132 Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program Grants to auto makers, suppliers, component manufacturers to encourage PHEVs, EVs, and advanced diesels.

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

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Vehicle to Grid is a really interesting area to do projects. The idea here is that you can connect your EV to the power grid and flow power from your EV to the Grid. An electric car acts as a load or micro-generating station for the grid. Advantages of V2G in grid perspective 2. are a few topics.

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