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Electric-car charging: The basics

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in the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Toyota RAV4 Prime – Electreon dynamic wireless charging Bidirectional charging is the wildcard In most cases, today, EV charging involves energy flow in one directionfrom the grid to your vehicle. Conceived in 2009 and 2010 by a group of Japanese companies, CHAdeMO was first rolled out for the U.S.

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Ford unveils C-MAX Solar Energi concept; “plug-in” hybrid not dependent on electric grid can fully recharge from sun

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Ford Motor Company announced the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a sun-powered hybrid vehicle that can deliver the efficiency of a plug-in hybrid without depending on the electric grid for recharging. This could be especially important in places where the electric grid is underdeveloped, unreliable or expensive to use.

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New Lithium rechargeable semi-solid flow cell offers energy densities an order of magnitude greater than previous flow batteries; possible applications in transportation and grid-scale storage

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Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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Siemens developing inductive charging system for plug-in vehicles with BMW; testing in Berlin in June 2011

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At Hannover Messe 2011, Siemens presented a development project for inductive charging (“Contactless Charging of Battery-Electric Vehicles”), developed in cooperation with BMW. The charging station is connected to the public grid by a primary coil that is completely underground. microteslas.

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Univ. of Missouri team progressing with convection battery; enabling rechargeable lithium-metal batteries

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Galen Suppes say that they have further developed and validated the “convection battery” or “convection cell” technology originally announced in 2011 and 2012 ( earlier post ). Primary applications of this technology include electric vehicles and grid storage of electricity, Dr. Suppes suggests.

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Ford Testing Intelligent System for Plug-in Vehicle to Grid Communication to Manage Charging

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Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. All 21 of Ford’s fleet of plug-in hybrid Escapes eventually will be equipped with the vehicle-to-grid communications technology.

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Hydro-Québec and B3CG Interconnect to test vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) power exchanges

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Hydro-Québec’s research institute, IREQ, is teaming up with B3CG Interconnect, based in Saint-Eustache, and its partners to test vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) power exchanges. The project will also receive financial support from the Québec government as part of its 2011-2020 Action Plan for Electric Vehicles.

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