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Nissan to lead EC-backed multi-standard rapid charge network project in UK and Ireland

Green Car Congress

Nissan is leading a consortium which aims to establish a network of rapid chargers for electric vehicles running the full length and breadth of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The units are compatible with cars using 44kW DC CCS, 44 kW DC CHAdeMO or 43 kW AC systems.

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Electric car chargers to be required in all new house and office builds in England

EV Info

All chargers installed will additionally have to be ‘smart’ – allowing owners to tell their cars when to charge and up to what percentage, with the option of recharging only during times when energy demand is generally lower. How much does it cost to install an electric car charger in your house?

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

Cars That Think

And with that EV story— so last time I was home in Ireland, one of the stories was— so they had bought this fleet of buses to put in Dublin to replace these double-decker buses, electric double-deck, to help Ireland hit its carbon targets. You can get very lean containers that is just basically the program and the install.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

Cars That Think

The message above was sent through the first transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland, way back in 1858. million km of submarine cables (Figure 1) in service, ranging from a short 131 km cable between Ireland and the U.K. Installation and maintenance is easier to accomplish in shallow waters. and Norway.

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The EV Transition Explained: Charger Infrastructure

Cars That Think

Ford says that a F-150 Lightning “using a 150 kW+ DC fast charger, the standard-range 98 kWh pack can charge from 15-80% in about 44 minutes,” while Hyundai says its IONIQ 5 EV using a 350 kW charger, “can charge from 10 percent to 80 percent in just 18 minutes.” million L2 workplace, 2 million public L2 and 140,000 DC fast charging ports.

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