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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

Green Car Congress

The remarkable advantage for BMW customers in using BMW i3 batteries as a plug and play storage application is the ability to tap into an alternative resource for residential and commercial backup power, thus using renewable energy much more efficiently, and enabling additional revenues from the energy market.

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Enabling Electric Vehicle Charging in Condominiums

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It’s simple: If you live in the condo and own an EV, having an EV charger on-site will allow you to charge up your car at home for utmost convenience. Third, you can take advantage of EV charger incentives to subsidize the cost of your investment. at night) and then feed energy back from their cars to the building during peak times.

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15 essential facts and figures about the Tesla Gigafactory

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This factory was never about cars. Now Tesla has the capacity to capture, store and release the power for your home, car and almost certainly the rest of your life too. An electric power storage company setting up in a place called Sparks just cannot happen. It will cut the cost of battery-powered cars.

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The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management

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Smart EV charging uses intelligence to manage when and how an electric vehicle plugged into a smart charger will receive power for charging based on the cost of electricity, its availability, and the needs of the driver. If the driver and car are registered with the smart charging provider, nothing else needs to happen.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Renewable Power (4 projects). ENERGY STORAGE. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Carbon Capture (5 projects). Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Vehicle Technologies (5 projects).

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. “You guys own the cars.&# Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Just as we have become accustomed to plugging in our cell phones everyday, the habit of plugging in your car after returning home could easily become second nature. There are likely many benefits to home charging that ought to make this the most popular option and here well cover the three "c"s: convenience, cost, and carbon-control.