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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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ABB introduces Dynamic AC concept to marine offerings; up to 6% annual fuel savings for large cruise ships

Green Car Congress

It joins a number of established ABB products, such as Azipod propulsion and the Onboard DC Grid, which maximize energy efficiency for vessel owners. Distribution for the auxiliary and hotel loads is provided by frequency converters or directly from the variable frequency system.

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Press-release: Ziptron Gas and L-Charge collaborate to boost charging infrastructure in India

Electric Vehicles India

L-Charge develops multifuel (LNG/Bio-LNG/Hydrogen) ultra-fast grid-independent fixed and mobile charging solutions. Ziptron Gas will start with installing a few boosters that convert the output power of the existing 4kW-15kW chargers into rapid charging solutions. Dear Colleagues!

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First fleet of 100 Mercedes-Benz Vito E-Cell electric vans covers 650,000 km in customer use; more model variants planned

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Where operators use several Vito E-CELL vans, the charging procedures are graded through a process of local charge management (LLM, in German: Lokales Lastmanagement) to ensure that the grid capacity is not overextended. The electric engine, power electronics, converter and AC/DC charger are housed beneath the hood.

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Best speakers ever

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More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. Much earlier in the chapter’s history, member Otmar Ebenhoech, who would go on to create the Villa DC Motor Controller, made a strong impression on the DIY community using DC motors. “Tesla licensed the technology.”

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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Switching power supplies are the type used to power virtually all personal computers, mobile devices, and appliances that run on DC. Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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And so that's what we call "DC fast charging." New DC fast-charging stations are being built at a fairly fast clip. The challenge for the makers there is that there are multiple DC fast charging networks out there run by different companies. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS.