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Xcel Energy launches EV smart charging pilot in Colorado; Transportation Electrification Plan for New Mexico approved

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Xcel Energy will work with the automakers to manage remotely when vehicles charge by using on-board communications, smart phone apps, and customer websites. It also encourages charging when renewable energy is abundant, often overnight, to reduce the amount of EV charging that occurs during Xcel Energy’s electric system peak.

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RMI launches “Virtual Power Plant Partnership” with support from General Motors & Ford

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Virtual power plants (VPPs) are portfolios comprising hundreds or thousands of households and businesses that offer the latent potential of their electric vehicles (EVs), smart thermostats, appliances, batteries, solar arrays, and additional energy assets to support the grid. Inform and shape policy development.

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Ford and Microsoft Partnering on EV Smart Charging

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For the vehicle application, Hohm will help owners determine when and how to most efficiently and affordably recharge battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles. There is certainly data that exists around pricing information. —Ed Pleet.

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RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION: Drive Electric’s advice on the second draft of the Emissions Reduction Plan (2026-2030)

Drive Electric

We would make the following additional points: E-mobility, by definition, depends on affordable and reliable renewable electricity. 2 Smart charging will help make the most of New Zealand’s existing electricity infrastructure and avoid unnecessary capital investment, by helping manage peak demand. This will only intensify.

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Tesla and Daimler to launch plug-in electric cars

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The companies, working as partners, will bring two plug-in hybrid vehicles to life in the next few years beginning with the Smart EV roadster. This will be followed by another affordable, zero-emissions electric vehicle. Instead he was simply offering information on where he sees the next generation Roadster going.

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EV Radar: February 2022

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EV Radar consists of top EV news, education, vehicle announcements, and more from the EV world. We’ll keep you informed. Get EV Radar in your email every two weeks. SUBSCRIBE TO EV RADAR. Join the conversation at EV Daily on Facebook. TOP EV NEWS. Race to the Most Affordable EV.

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

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As we noted early in the series, EVs are a new class of cyberphysical systems that dynamically interact with and intimately depend upon both energy and information systems of systems to function. If California cannot afford it, can the other 17 states that have pledged to follow California’s EV lead afford it, either?