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Sandia, national lab partners studying vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

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Electric vehicle charging infrastructure has several vulnerabilities ranging from skimming credit card information—just like at conventional gas pumps or ATMs—to using cloud servers to hijack an entire electric vehicle charger network. We have been studying potential impacts to the power grid.

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When (and How) Should You Use a DC EV Charger?

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AC is the type of electricity that flows through power grids and into homes and businesses, including to power EV chargers. AC can be thought of as "low and slow" charging, while DC is very fast and powerful. They need the sustainable, electrical equivalent of a fully refilled gas tank, with similar speed and convenience.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Idaho National Laboratory. High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania).

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DOE issues $6M request for proposals for H2@Scale projects

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Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. The H2@Scale concept has been built with participation from several national laboratories.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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The first power plant using NuScale’s technology is set to start generating electricity in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory, as part of the Carbon Free Power Project. The transmission line will sidestep the growing difficulties of connecting renewable-energy sources to the power grid.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ 15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. PHEVLERs are better than BEVs in support of the electric grid. when the battery has recently sent electricity back into the smart grid). 15 ] Got EVs?

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