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Enhance EV Drivers’ Satisfaction with Flexible Pricing & Efficient Billing

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Almost every intersection has one or two gas/petrol stations, so drivers generally make their choice on price – unless they have a strong relationship with a specific vendor due to their membership in the loyalty club/credit card holder. Unlike pricing per liter or gallon of gasoline/petrol, pricing for EV charging is more complex.

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Everything You Need to Know About EV Plug Types

EV Connect

The Evolution of EV Plug Types Travel around the world and you’ll soon realize that each continent (sometimes each country) seems to have its own plug to connect devices to the power grid. If you want to use your devices abroad, you’ll typically need an adapter or even a transformer to draw power.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

. “The more fluctuating energy you have from renewables, the more it makes sense to have a smart grid,&# said Markus Ewert from the new technologies team of German utility E.ON “It would help stabilize the energy flows, so you don’t come up against the limits of the grid. While utilities such as E.ON — AH2 14.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz in GMs FastLane blog ). Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering.

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