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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging. It sounds like a utopian dream: rows of electric vehicles staying cool and charging away beneath solar panels while their owners shop, dine and conduct business. Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Parking Lot Solar Panels and EV Charging. Retrofitting Woes.

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Why EV Charging Demand Response Is Critical During the Summer

EV Connect

So what does that have to do with electric cars? A lot, actually: EVs also need to utilize the power grid in order to stay juiced up and on the roads. This is where effective EV charging station demand response comes in. Fortunately, EV Connect is already part of the OpenADR 2.0

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Share 4 stories about mobile EV charging

Setec Powerr

Story 1 As a traveler, I always rely on my electric car for transportation. My car ran out of charge in the hotel parking lot, and there was no charging station nearby. I felt frustrated and stuck, but I remembered a friend telling me about the mobile EV charging app. I couldn’t believe my luck.

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Vanderbilt battery management device reconfigures modules to extend EV pack range

Green Car Congress

student in electrical engineering, have developed a battery management device that reconfigures battery modules in electric cars to be online or offline depending on whether or not they’re going to pull down the other modules. The result could be an increase in range of up to 50%, seen as the battery pack ages.

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How EV Charging Stations Can Help Your Business Attract and Retain Employees

EV Connect

As many businesses shift back into or continue fully in-person operation, providing EV charging for the workplace is a great strategy for stimulating employment growth. Let’s take a look at how EV charging stations can help businesses big and small attract and retain the best employees. What Do Employees Care About? Think again!

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Those exact words came from my wife’s mouth when I suggested we rent an electric car for a week’s family holiday in France. Sure, it’d be a gamble fraught with charging uncertainty. A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. A stuck charging cable. Holiday days planned around EV charging.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charging stations. Parking in these Coulomb charge stations is restricted to city-owned vehicles and Car Share companies under threat of towing. There is a cost to charging.