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CASE unveils first fully electric backhoe loader: the 580 EV

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The backhoe loader is perfectly suited for electrification as the varied use cycles, from heavy to light work, provide an excellent opportunity to convert wasted diesel engine hours into zero consumption battery time—yet provide the operator with instantaneous torque response when needed. and Moog Inc.,

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OEMs shifting towards onboard chargers > 6 kW for EVs; lower output chargers to remain dominant through 2020

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kW are expected to remain dominant, accounting for 62% of sales even in 2020, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The report, Strategic Analysis of the US and European Onboard Chargers Market , finds that sale volumes of onboard chargers stood at 304,683 units in 2014 and estimates this to reach 2,235,937 units by 2020.

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Navigant: sales of LDVs with 48V subsystems will reach nearly 13.5M units annually by 2023

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Navigant Research is forecasting a slow start through the end of this decade but then a quick ramp from 2020 to 2023 for light-duty vehicles with 48V electrical subsystems, with sales reaching nearly 13.5 Today, the cost of power electronics has come down to the point that there are fewer barriers to installing multiple voltage subsystems.

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Mercedes-Benz Trucks delivering 10 eActros electric heavy-duty trucks to customers for two years of fleet testing

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A number of technical and, above all, business-related issues remain outstanding, key among them the range and cost of the batteries, but also the infrastructure required for their use as part of customers’ commercial fleets. These three-phase asynchronous motors are liquid-cooled and operate with a nominal voltage of 400 volts.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

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According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh. That rate would give the LEAF a cost of 17.2 * 24 to drive 100 miles. The standard unit of electrical power is the watt, which is defined as a current of one ampere, at a voltage of one volt.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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I went in there and explained it—5 minutes, 10 at the most,” Whittingham told me in January 2020. The new chemistry boosted the battery’s voltage by another two-thirds, to 4 volts. One consultant recommended Battery Engineering, a tiny firm based in a converted truck garage in the Hyde Park area of Boston.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $1.8M additional funding to further UCSD microgrid project; energy storage, EV charging and V2G services are components

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Decrease the ancillary services cost per additional MW of solar power on the grid by 50%, if the proposed forecasting model was used operationally. This will reduce the indirect cost of solar power to California ratepayers. Nearly half of UCSD’s fleet of more than 800 vehicles has been converted to near-zero emission vehicles.