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BYD and Levo partner to deploy up to 5K BEVs in US fleets, integrate V2G technology

Green Car Congress

BYD and Levo Mobility, a joint venture of Nuvve Holding Corp., BYD and Levo Mobility, a joint venture of Nuvve Holding Corp., The BYD-Levo collaboration has the potential to accelerate and transform the transportation sector at a critical time. —BYD Motors President Stella Li.

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BYD introduces Type A battery-electric school bus with V2G technology

Green Car Congress

BYD introduced its Type A battery-electric school bus that also offers innovative vehicle-to-grid technology, allowing the vehicle to serve as a power storage resource when it’s not transporting students. —Samuel Kang, BYD’s Head of Total Technology Solutions. BYD also provides 19.2 kW single phase AC charging.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

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. FY2017 Low-No projects. Description. Napa Valley Transportation Authority. 1,000,000.

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Electric bus market and trends 

Electric Vehicles India

India’s grid is highly carbon-intensive with 950 gCO2/KW h compared to other countries in the world. There are 6 big manufacturers in the current Indian electric bus market such as Tata Motors, Olectra-BYD, Foton PMI, JBM Solaris and VECV. BYD received Israel’s largest electric bus order. Electric bus market and trends .

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

A lot of people don’t understand how that can be, but if you think about the topology of a charger, there’s the power electronics that are connected to the grid—that’s where the cabinet is—then there’s a cable going from there to where the vehicle is, and then there’s vehicle coupling. There’s ease of operations, ease of maintenance benefits.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

It makes sense for organizations to focus on their core activities, so just as they outsource things like IT or building maintenance, many want to outsource the charging infrastructure for their electric fleets. And they assigned us every bit of capacity that was available on the grid. Paul Gioupis: We’re very mindful of the grid pull.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

But what did surprise this reporter was the absence of Honda, Toyota, BYD, and a lot of the other players listed on the Plug-In America car tracker. The eBox above from AC Propulsion is sending power to and from the grid right there on the Long Beach Convention Center floor. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV, only here because SCE is testing it.

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