Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2013
The Grid Friendly EV Charger Controller technology notifies the car’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. By charging plug-ins when electricity is most readily available, the technology could translate into lower bills for vehicle owners and a more stable grid.
Driivz
DECEMBER 19, 2022
What is a Demand Response event? When a utility or grid operator anticipates that energy demand will exceed energy supply, it will declare a DR event and directly ask participants to reduce their energy demand during specified hours. Alternatively, a utility can designate peak time during which customers are asked to reduce energy use.
Driivz
JANUARY 18, 2024
When EVs are plugged into unmanaged chargers, the charging session begins immediately and electricity flows to the vehicle at the maximum rate at which it can be drawn from the grid. Smart charging refers to the level of technology in the charger hardware itself. What is Managed EV Charging vs Unmanaged EV Charging?
Charged EVs
JULY 29, 2021
Vic Shao: What we run across all the time is, a charger company with a network-enabled smart charger, during the demo phase with the customer, will say, “Look, you can log into the web portal, you can see that particular charger and what it’s doing in real time, and if you stick the charger into the vehicle, hey, look at that power spike.”
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