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Volvo teams with Starbucks to install EV charging network at U.S. locations

Teslarati

The charging stations, powered by ChargePoint, will be installed at up to 15 stores along a 1,350-miles corridor from Seattle to Denver. The DC fast chargers will give customers the opportunity to give their car, and themselves, additional charge with electrodes and caffeine. locations beginning this Summer.

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Hydrogen Fuel Cell for Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles India

Working of Fuel cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV): Unlike the battery-powered electric vehicles which use the battery pack as the main fuel, these FCEV’s uses battery packs only to start and store the energy generated from the regenerative braking of a vehicle.

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Coritech Services orders Ideal Power’s bi-directional battery converters for DoD vehicle-to-grid program

Green Car Congress

A new approach to electronic power converters, PPSA has a 100% indirect power transfer compared to direct power transfer from conventional power converters. All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor.

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What watts?

Electric Auto Association

No EV charging is 100% efficient, not plug-in charging, not wireless charging, not DC Fast Charging (DCFC), not AC home charging. Regardless of how or where you charge, not all the electrical energy pulled from the grid—those watts—will make it into the “fuel tank” (battery). Why does battery temperature matter? More info) 3.

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Mazda6 diesel sedan offers up to 60 mpg US

Green Car Congress

i-ELOOP (short for “intelligent Energy Loop”) uses a supercapacitor to store electricity recovered during deceleration to power the vehicle’s electrical systems, thereby improving fuel economy. Most are available with i-ELOOP as well as i-stop.

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Quick drive of the Passat HyMotion hydrogen fuel cell hybrid

Green Car Congress

kWh lithium-ion battery pack (from the Jetta Hybrid), which stores the kinetic energy recovered from regenerative braking; assists in the starting phase of the fuel cell; and adds a dynamic boost to the maximum acceleration of the Golf SportWagen. The fuel cell and battery power an electric motor adapted from the e-Golf.

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Tech: How do Hybrid & Plug-in Hybrid Batteries Recharge? Do I Need to Plug a Hybrid In?

Clean Fleet Report

It takes with kinetic energy that would normally be lost as heat through traditional mechanical friction brakes and stores it as electric energy in the battery. In addition, when in the generator mode, the internal combustion (usually gas) engine charges the battery pack.