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HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

Green Car Congress

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. It can also solve for systems with the lowest carbon emissions and other factors.

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Local vs Cloud Control: Which Works Best for Smart EV Charging?

Driivz

Whether you are an EV fleet manager with hundreds of chargers or the owner of a handful of chargers located on your commercial, retail or residential property, smart EV charging allows you to optimize costs and increase charging reliability and stability. Lack of real-time insights. Insights and optimization.

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Groundbreaking innovation at Audi Spain launch

Wallbox

Villa Mayfair, with its modernist architecture, spacious grounds and swimming pool, provided a unique setting to look back at Audi’s EV and hybrid history, while the launch gave guests an insight into the manufacturer’s plans to go completely carbon neutral by 2050. Discover more of our smart chargers here. Wallbox Commander 2.

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6 EV Charging Station Management Best Practices

Driivz

Analytics-driven insights you want your management platform to provide include utilization rates for individual charging ports, time-of-day patterns for utilization, types of chargers deployed, geographic coverage, and peak energy requirement for each charging port.

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EnviroSpark has installed over 7,800 charging plugs. Here’s what the company has learned.

Charged EVs

Founder and CEO Aaron Luque shared with us some of the insights his company has gained about how to design and build a charging project that will be efficient and reliable. Now the vast majority are smart chargers with that cellular component. We have direct access to the chargers. We used to see a lot more of that.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

Considering the costs associated with installation and maintenance and anticipating the resistance I’m likely to encounter, I decided to put my charger crusade on hold.” One company, Atom Power, just might have the solution everyone is looking for. Even used gasoline-powered cars are averaging a monthly car payment of around $525.

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

Charged EVs

Total control of power usage: from solar to EV and back to the house. And we came up to two different [insights] at the end of that study. Your system would allow them to schedule their EV charging or other big power draws for times when excess solar generation is available. Shawn: Correct. It’s our newest addition.

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