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HEVO to collaborate with Stellantis on wireless EV charging

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HEVO’s technology is up to 95% efficient (grid-to-battery) and is compliant with SAE and UL wireless charging standards. The vehicle pad, in turn, sends the power via a battery adapter to the vehicle battery. The HEVO power station offers up to 8 kW of power and is designed with wireless and plugin charging functionality.

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ViriCiti report finds that fast chargers are underutilized in 24% of opportunity charging sessions

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Twenty-four percent of opportunity charging sessions start when the battery is already more than 80% charged, according to a report released by ViriCiti, a provider of electric fleet and infrastructure management solutions. This also means that those 24% of opportunity charging sessions don’t use the fast chargers at their full capacity.

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EV Sales Forecasts For Europe, Tesla, & More — CleanTech Talk

CleanTechnica EVs

He expects that plugin vehicles will account for 18.5% In part two of this interview with Rodney Hooper of RK Equity, I started off by asking about his forecasts for EV market share in Europe. of vehicle sales in Europe this year (well above his US forecast of 15% by 2025). At that percentage, we’re […].

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BMW Group and PG&E launching ChargeForward Phase 3 pilot; V2G testing

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This advanced smart charging initiative is available to all BMW’s battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) drivers in Northern and Central California who are also PG&E residential, electric customers. Through smart charging, EVs act as a flexible grid resource to support the overall reliability of the electric grid.

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EVs market share continues to grow in Norway

Push EVs

February saw Norway’s plugin electric vehicle share continue to grow to 90.1%, from 86.1% All the growth came from full electrics, whilst plugin hybrids lost share. overall plugin share comprised 83.1% plugin hybrids (PHEVs). overall plugin share comprised 83.1% plugin hybrids (PHEVs). year on year.

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The controversy in fast charging for electric vehicles (PlugIn 2010)

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. At PlugIn 2010 the agenda included a benign sounding panel session entitled "The Near Future of Charging." Electric vehicle charging is rife with geeky details about battery management systems, charge rates, communication

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). Click to enlarge.