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UPS-led SEUL consortium switches on smart-grid fleet charging solution in London; maxing out on EVs without expensive grid upgrades

Green Car Congress

This will be accomplished by combining a variety of solutions including conventional power grid upgrade, smart grid, on-site energy storage with batteries and local power generation (using, for example, solar energy generated on facility roof tops). —Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, program manager, electric freight at Cross River Partnership.

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Infineon Introduces 3rd-Generation Silicon Carbide Schottky Diodes; Improved Performance Reduces Cost of Power Electronics for Motor Drive and Renewable Energy Applications

Green Car Congress

Main application areas for SiC Schottky diodes are active Power Factor Correction (CCM PFC) in Switched-Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) and other AC/DC and DC/DC power conversion applications such as solar inverters and motor drives. Infineon expects system cost reductions in some SMPS applications of up to 20%.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

My ex and I got solar at home on his birthday in 2002, then our first EV, the RAV4, a couple months later, on the winter solstice. And with the solar panels, I was driving on sunshine. . “I’ve had solar hot water since 1985 and solar electric since 1990,” he says. Thirty years, DOS. ” .

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As we’ve noted before , a lower-power version of it was published back in 2001, specifying charging hardware interface and coupler system. He called for steppe… Will Solar Save Chip Companies? The SAE standard for this is called J1772. Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.]

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

But I will admit that one thing has changed even more than the size of our electric bill and that’s the size of the solar PV system we now need to generate 100% of our electricity – because the same moves that cut our electric bill also cut the number of solar panels we need by 50% too.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

The pipeline had been completed at a cost of €9.5 Since 2001, though, only the Norwegian gas output has kept on growing. Transactions related to the trade of energy are excluded. Europe still has to pay for its energy or face a disastrous cutoff. But what about the mothballing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Peter Adams • Solar-power microinverters : Solar-power generation has taken off in recent years, in both grid-scale and distributed (household) applications.

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