Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded power management company Eaton $4.9 million for a program to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying direct-current (DC) fast electric vehicle charging infrastructure (EVCI). Eaton, NCSU and Pitt are collaborating on the technical development of the solid-state transformer.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
This includes EV charging community projects, such as installing charge stations within multi-unit housing, hosting community-led demonstrations that address barriers to EV adoption and lowering costs for direct current (DC) fast charging equipment. Tennessee Technological University. Eaton Corporation. Eaton Corporation.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
The 8 BREAKERS projects will work to develop new direct current (DC) devices to better manage power by eliminating electrical faults, improving efficiency and reaction times, and potentially enabling greater proliferation of energy storage and renewable resources. Eaton Corporation, DC Wide Bandgap Static Circuit Breaker – $3,760,000.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2017
Smart, Compact, Efficient 500kW DC Fast Charger Cree Fayetteville (operating as Wolfspeed, A Cree Company) and its project team will build a DC fast charger for electric vehicles using a solid-state transformer based on silicon carbide (SiC). Eaton Corporation. Wide Bandgap Solid State Circuit Breakers for AC and DC Microgrids.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2009
Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Production of DC bus capacitors including soft wound film and stacked film capacitors necessary for electric drive system power electronics. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Colorado State University. $5.
Charged EVs
MAY 31, 2022
For over 95 percent of commercial buildings, half their bill is made up, not of how much energy they use, but what their peak 15-minute usage was during any time period during the month [ Editor’s note: these demand charges are a major headache for owners of DC fast charging stations ]. kilowatts and 48 amps of DC to the car.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 21, 2013
One of approximately twenty VW Golf blue e-motion prototypes under test in the United States, with Eaton’s 50kW DC Quick Charger, at Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory, near San Francisco. The gathering marked the introduction of Eaton’s DC quick charger ( link ), one of which is now installed at ERL.
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