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Charged EVs
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. The LIGHTS team had the Volvo VNR Electric tractor assessed by a team at the University of California, Riverside on a heavy-duty dynamometer. This is a step that, so far, Tesla has not taken for its own Megacharger standard. That’s about to change.
Cars That Think
JUNE 27, 2022
It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” It plans to introduce the technology as standard in an upcoming model.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
This situation is not true universally. Xcel president Chris Clark told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that four or five families buying EVs noticeably affects the transformer load in a neighborhood, with a family buying an EV “adding another half of their house.” However, she adds, “All those things are not a magic wand.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 11, 2015
I gave the Carson City Manager what has now become my standard reply. How am I supposed to look anyone under 40 years old in the eye unless I do everything I can to buy them some more time and stave off the worst of what’s coming? . “What’s in it for me?” That’s unacceptable to me.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2009
While OEMs and utilities continue to define and refine hardware standards and communication protocols for smart charging, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done in preparing both the grid and the process to accommodate the expected influx of plug-ins, and to make the process as easy as possible for consumers. John Patten, Ph.D.,
Green Car Congress
APRIL 29, 2009
Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. Responsible for designing the transportation system for the Citadel of Masdar. Earlier post.)].
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Will we have a universal standard for charging? It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. And do I understand that it's likely that that would set a de facto standard for all the non-Tesla world? We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses.
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