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How Will EVs Change Convenience Stores and Truck Stops?

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Here are five reasons why convenience stores and truck stops should be thinking about EV charging this year. EV chargers are an additional revenue source Installing EV charging equipment at your convenience store or truck stop means you can collect fees from drivers for charging their vehicles.

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Berkeley Lab researchers shed light on how lithium-rich cathodes work, opening the door to higher capacity batteries

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report a major advance in understanding how oxygen oxidation creates extra capacity in lithium-rich cathodes, opening the door to batteries with far higher energy density. This is a very exciting direction being pursued by battery scientists.

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How Will EVs Change Convenience Stores and Truck Stops?

Blink Charging

Here are five reasons why convenience stores and truck stops should be thinking about EV charging this year. EV chargers are an additional revenue source Installing EV charging equipment at your convenience store or truck stop means you can collect fees from drivers for charging their vehicles.

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Coulomb Technologies and Carbon Day Automotive Unveil Solar Plug-In Station in Chicago

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Carbon Day Automotive and Coulomb Technologies unveiled a solar-powered electric vehicle charging station in the City of Chicago. kWh underground battery pack specially designed and developed by ALL CELL Technologies, a thermal management and power pack solutions manufacturer. The station features a 2.4 kW solar panel array and a 5.5

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

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Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries.

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Study concludes no one strategy sufficient for targeted GHG reduction from LDVs; positive combinatorial effects

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After considering a wide range of possible strategies to reduce light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, a team from Carnegie Mellon University, RAND Corporation and the University of Toronto has concluded that no one strategy will be sufficient to meet GHG emissions reduction goals to avoid climate change. Click to enlarge.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Topics covered the expected gamut of policy (especially carbon policy), infrastructure, batteries and consumers. As one example in the opening plenary panel session, Peter Darbee, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation described the opportunity and challenges from his utility’s point of view.

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