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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 The LIGHTS team had the Volvo VNR Electric tractor assessed by a team at the University of California, Riverside on a heavy-duty dynamometer. One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Infrastructure, recharging and business models. Berkeley will have a higher percentage than Fresno—it will not be unlikely for 3-5 PEVs to show up on one neighborhood circuit in Berkeley, overwhelming the local circuit, and leading to blackouts, he said. Director, Manufacturing Research Center, Western Michigan University.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Total DOE award: $15,000,000. Total DOE award: $14,970,144. Total DOE award: $12,975,388.

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

Charged EVs

If someone only spends $100 with me yearly to charge their vehicle at one of my high-speed chargers, I’m still probably going to see in the neighborhood of an additional $400 or $500 in home charging. We took a charging hub live in July that is one of the largest universal charging hubs. Factor at a rate of 0.33

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And yet, what about recharging? Will we have a universal standard for charging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And yet, what about recharging? Will we have a universal standard for charging? That means I'd have to recharge at least once. It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,