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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Parking lots covered with solar panels is an idea whose time has come. Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Connecting to the grid allows businesses to sell back unused capacity, saving money and preventing wasting energy when surpluses occur. Why aren’t such facilities multiplying everywhere? The way it could be.

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Its Kona has a range of up to 484km (the big battery one) so range anxiety would barely be a thing. All of this wastes time. ’ Our three nights here has us boosting the battery each night. Our day starts early with a full battery and 330km range showing. A waste of energy and a waste of time.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

Only half the story about public charging is providing juice: enabling drivers to extend the range of their vehicles beyond their night-time "fill-up" at home when necessary and overcoming newbie "range anxiety." If you happen to have a chip-enabled credit card (I have no idea how prevalent they are), you wave it. Juice flows.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

For example the LEAF has a 24 KWh battery pack, and a full pack is good for around 100 miles. In March 2020 we installed 9 solar panels an inverter and 2 battery packs. Battery Pack: PylonTech Battery Storage . Having an EV you learn about the basics of electric power, charge rates and kilowatt-hours or KWh. .

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." The benefit of a higher voltage connector has nothing to do with the speed at which the battery will charge it has to do with the conductor size. Neutral ????

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Newsletter LinkedIn Twitter Facebook News and ideas for a sustainable world Search 04.17.09 It appears that few people, especially those in the mainstream media, understand the basic physics underlying fast charging, so I though it would be a good idea to review this and its implications for electric vehicle infrastructure.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The three leading new options to re-supply our autos with energy are charging at home, battery swap stations and fast charge stations. Gallery: Plugging in at home Battery swap stations are a concept often associated with Better Place , an EV infrastructure company. Battery swapping has its critics.