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Why is maintaining 80% battery power the best choice for EVs? | EV Basics

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If your EV has 300 miles of range when fully juiced up, it can go about 240 miles with an 80% state of charge. If the 0-to-80% recharge time is 40 minutes, you can hit the road in less than half an hour, which is not too bad. There may be huge distances between DC fast chargers, and you need every range you can get.

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Europcar provided a Shell Recharge card: you create an account, link your payment method and bingo! You need to download the Shell Recharge app, but as I have an Australian phone with an Australian Apple ID, it says it’s not available in my region. We drive out of our way to reach a fast DC charger. We try again.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. The "normal plug" idea doesnt neccessarily work dude. let me plug this car in right here, oh wait!

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There’s a Queue Coming for Tesla Charging, and That’s OK

Cars That Think

And the entire industry is facing up to the essential nature of charger interoperability: the idea that every car must connect with every charger, with zero hassle, just as internal-combustion cars can pull up to most any pump. No one, not even Tesla, has come close. No one, not even Tesla, has come close.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Newsletter LinkedIn Twitter Facebook News and ideas for a sustainable world Search 04.17.09 It appears that few people, especially those in the mainstream media, understand the basic physics underlying fast charging, so I though it would be a good idea to review this and its implications for electric vehicle infrastructure.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. When most of America will be reluctant to buy a GM car because the company might go bankrupt how the hell did those in charge think bailing them out was a good idea?

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