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AeroVironment licenses PNNL EV smart charger controller technology

Green Car Congress

Under normal conditions, this stabilizing technology will be particularly important as the power grid is expected to rely more and more on variable renewable resources such as wind and solar technologies. —PNNL lead engineer Michael Kintner-Meyer. These technologies will result in a triple-win.

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HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

Green Car Congress

The new capability helps users design optimal renewable energy and storage systems to reduce utility costs—especially demand charges—of electric vehicle charging. The solution is to co-locate renewables and storage with charging infrastructure.

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Charge when it’s cheap with myenergi and Intelligent Octopus Go

My Energi

The UK’s original smart charger just got smarter The world’s first solar-compatible smart electric vehicle charger, the zappi from myenergi, can now integrate with Octopus Energy’s Intelligent Octopus Go tariff, enabling EV drivers to minimise their home charging costs with access to six hours of low-cost energy every night.

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

Get Electric Vehicle

MTech, and BTech Students in different branches such as Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automobile Engineering, etc. #1 4 I want to do an EV project in terms of environment engineering purposes… Related to environment-saving… Pls suggest topics and ideas. in Electrical engineering.

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Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future

Charged EVs

This idea that you can store 75-plus kilowatt-hours of energy in your car and it’s sitting in your garage 95% of the time, and be able to tap into that as storage for distributing renewable generation, we think is a complete game-changer for accelerating the EV transition and solving some of the issues that the grid is having today.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

For instance, a recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) quarterly EV charging infrastructure trend report has identified only 1,246 EV charging ports at private multifamily residences across the entire United States, with nearly all being Level 2 chargers.