Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Electrify America entered into a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with developer Terra-Gen to build a solar photovoltaic renewable energy generation project in San Bernardino County, California called Electrify America Solar Glow 1. The solar project is targeted to be operational by mid-2023.

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My Energi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, the UK’s Transport Minister unveiled plans for electric vehicle (EV) charging points to be installed on all new-build properties in England from 2022. What’s more, it will help to boost confidence in electric vehicles for those who are still concerned about range implications and personal access to charging points.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2024

WattEV has just opened the first electric truck charging depot in the US to use the new Megawatt Charge System, capable of delivering up to 1.2 megawatts of power, currently the highest-speed charger available in the US, along with solar and battery backup on-site and a unique partially grid-islanded setup.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

While the main energy source to Tevva’s electric trucks is grid electricity, the company optimizes hydrogen and fuel cell (H 2 FC) range extension to support the unique full-day, long-distance duty cycles of freight trucks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2023

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses the near-term charging and refueling infrastructure needs for zero-emission Class 4-8 medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDV) at the national and sub-national levels. There are many options to meet both near- and long-term charging needs, the ICCT paper notes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The City of Boulder is partnering with Fermata Energy to test the ability to reduce the city’s building energy costs with an innovative pilot at the North Boulder Recreation Center. This vehicle-to-building (V2B) technology can provide the city new ways to manage its energy load, and to reduce energy costs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. Achieving our EV vision to have 1.5

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

(NFI), the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer, have formed New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions, a service dedicated to providing safe, reliable, smart, and sustainable charging and mobility solutions. Earlier post.). —Chris Stoddart, President, New Flyer.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Charged : We’ve been covering your company for several years. What did you tell the folks in Sacramento?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. City of Fairfield.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

California’s grid is facing an era of rapid change. Framework of Electric Mobility - Infrastructure - Charging - Grid Nexus. million PEVs would add about 15,500 GWh of charging demand, equivalent to just about five% of California’s current total annual energy load. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

Here’s how electric vehicles and EV charging can charge up your organization’s sustainability strategy this year. What is a sustainability strategy? How do EVs and EV charging equipment help you reach sustainability targets? ones that burn coal) still see a significant amount of emissions from workplace EV charging.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2023, Kelley Blue Book reported an unprecedented purchase of 1,189,051 electric vehicles in the United States alone, while global EV sales are projected to range between 9.6 Last year, Blink introduced a new demand response feature, enhancing grid management alongside existing local load management capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

New York State announced a series of broad-scale initiatives to encourage the purchase and to increase the convenience and accessibility of electric vehicles (EV). EVolve NY to Install Charging Stations along Major Corridors and JFK Airport. EVolve NY is a key pillar of Governor Cuomo’s Charge NY 2.0

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Yet standing in the way of adoption are myths about EV charging that date from the early days of electrification and still persist. Read on as we bust those myths and shed some light on the state of EV charging today. In Europe, 93% of the population has the option to use 100% renewable power for charging vehicles.

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Driivz

MAY 3, 2022

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first installment in our two-part blog series on the role of utilities in turning EVs into a grid asset. We set the stage by examining EV adoption trends, the impact of EV charging on the grid, and the risks of unmanaged EV charging. . Most EV charging today is done at home.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Building a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) can benefit your business and the environment. Additionally, with the increasing availability of public charging infrastructure, it’s becoming easier to incorporate EVs into a fleet. Benefits of building an EV fleet. Benefits of building an EV fleet. Off-peak charging.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Those vehicles are hungry for electrons, driving growth in charging stations and the infrastructure to support them. The beating heart of EV charging lies in the software and management systems that enable this dynamic market. EV charging software manages much more than just topping up the battery in an electric vehicle.

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EV Connect

APRIL 17, 2023

In light of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act and the NEVI program, new data from BloomberNEF predicts that EV sales will make up more than 50% of car purchases by 2030. Can the power grid actually handle that many electric cars? grid produced in 2020. Can the Power Grid Handle the Growing EV Demand? of what the U.S.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As more consumers purchase an EV, an open and fair charging network is needed to ensure fairness in the market for current and future EV drivers. Billion to EV charging equipment. Recently, there have been fierce debates regarding the ownership of EV charging equipment. Who Owns the Infrastructure. Legislation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2020

Octillion Power Systems, a global provider of advanced lithium-ion storage systems for electric mobility ( earlier post ), announced a new demonstrator program for battery-leasing that allows batteries to be leased to fleet customers when they purchase vehicles. Access to the program will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With the popularity of the new energy vehicle consumption market, all localities have accelerated the layout of green travel and promoted the construction of supporting facilities such as charging pile s and swap stations. Expressway service areas in areas other than high cold and high altitudes can provide basic charging services.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

This FOA focuses only on scale-up and pre-pilot projects of promising technologies that ARPA-E has previously funded and for which the scale-up award would substantially build upon innovations achieved under the original ARPA-E award.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The Nissan/Eaton partnership offers xStorage Home, xStorage Buildings and xStorage Grid-scale products. Consumers can opt to purchase units powered by either second-life EV batteries or new batteries. The 55,000-seat stadium has hosted numerous high profile concerts and sporting events over the years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2020

The Make-Ready Program would improve electric vehicle (EV) charging station economics by covering up to 90% of the costs to “make-ready” a site for EV charging; these costs currently present an economic barrier to EV charging station developers.

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Driivz

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Fleet operators have to purchase EVs, purchase, install and manage depot EV charging infrastructure, retrain drivers, and transition maintenance staff. On the plus side, the purchase price of EVs and EV charging equipment continues to come down as new models come on the market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Fastned, the Dutch company building a European network of fast charging stations, has raised €12.3 The proceeds of this issue will be used to further expand the network of fast-charging stations in the Netherlands, Germany other European countries. million (US$14.5 million) in 10 days via a public issue of bonds.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

About 50% of the more than 12,000 PEV owners in SCE territory charge at Level 1. SCE began its PEV readiness efforts in 2009, and quantified the anticipated impact of PEVs on the electric grid before consumers began buying and leasing them. This could create new implications for grid reliability, which SCE is monitoring, it said.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

Some charging operators assume they need the highest-power DC chargers available, but it makes more sense to choose the right power levels for the use case of each specific charging site. Charged : When we started covering Tritium in 2011, the company was making a controller people used to build custom EVs.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While it’s great news that electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more popular in the United States, it does pose a unique issue: EV sales are now outpacing EV charging infrastructure. It’s promising to see electric vehicle sales increase, but now they need commercial EV charging stations to stay charged.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

By starting with a clean sheet of paper, rather than opting for an off-the-shelf solution, we can build strong synergies between AEHRA and Miba to ensure that not only does the battery pack fully complement the body structure, but that the body structure fully complements the battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

The investment will help Electrify America reduce its overall energy-related costs and lower the company’s impact on Sacramento’s electrical grid. This first-of-a-kind program will help address peak energy demands, minimize impacts to the grid and support the expansion of EV charging in our community.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) That’s why Liu’s Thermal Energy Storage Group at ORNL is focused primarily on buildings.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2021

Administered by CALSTART, the EnergIIZE Commercial Vehicles (Energy Infrastructure Incentives for Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles) project will use a concierge-like model working directly with eligible applicants to help plan and fund the purchase of charging and hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

The Netherlands-based Fastned, the company building a European network of fast charging stations, saw its first two stations break-even in March.

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