Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has launched Grid-eMotion Fleet, a scalable, modular and fully customizable solution for large-scale EV charging of smart public and commercial transport. Grid-eMotion Fleet comes in standard containers that integrate the grid connection and charging systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2023

Wallbox is working with Kia America to bring bidirectional charging to Kia’s EV9 customers. Wallbox expects Quasar 2 to be the first EV charger allowing bidirectional charging with the Kia EV9. Quasar 2 is a next-generation 11.5 Quasar 2 is a next-generation 11.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Testing of the first 50 BMW i3 cars equipped with bidirectional charging technology is expected to start under real-world everyday conditions in early 2021. However, there is a growing need to control energy flows intelligently in order to make optimum use of electricity from renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Volta, an electric vehicle (EV) charging and media company, announced that a project application it collaborated on with Imagen Energy, a developer of compact high-power EV chargers, was awarded a $12-million grant from the US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed its high-power wireless charging technology for electric vehicles to HEVO. The system provides the world’s highest power levels in the smallest package and could one day enable electric vehicles to be charged as they are driven at highway speeds.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The solution is to co-locate renewables and storage with charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since its inception, the US electric grid has mostly operated smoothly as one synchronous machine with a one-directional flow of electricity to meet the nation’s predictable power needs. The US electric grid is experiencing something of a mid-life crisis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2021

This RFI is being jointly issued by EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office and OE’s Advanced Grid Research and Development Division. This RFI is being jointly issued by EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office and OE’s Advanced Grid Research and Development Division. The impact of grid integration on EVs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary that manages all activities related to charging and energy for the Group in Europe, the Elia Group and its start-up re.alto signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Berlin. The MoU underscores the signatories’ shared vision of integrating electric cars into the electricity system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

FreeWire Technologies, a developer of ultrafast electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, raised $125 million in new capital. FreeWire recently broke ground on a new 66,000-square-foot R&D facility in Newark, California to develop and manufacture new ultrafast charging and energy storage product offerings.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Following the start of series production of fuel cells in December 2022, the Danish fuel cell developer and manufacturer Blue World Technologies is now launching the CellPack Stationary, a methanol fuel cell-based power generator. When powered by renewable methanol, CellPack Stationary has carbon-neutral operation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

A new report from RMI has found that optimized charging of electric vehicles, which involves automatically and strategically shifting when an EV charges, could significantly reduce transportation sector emissions, and could potentially result in an average of 800 pounds of CO? saved per vehicle annually.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2023

Rimac Technology is entering the stationary Energy Storage Systems (ESS) market with the launch of Rimac Energy. Additional technological benefits include improved cycle life, built-in redundancy for increased availability, as well as competitive material and installation cost.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

The UK Government has published an Electric Vehicle Smart Charging Action Plan. The plan sets out steps being taken to seize on the significant potential of smart charging and make it the preferred method of long duration charging by 2025. —Energy and Climate Minister Graham Stuart.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) latest annual report on the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program highlights how public-interest research is helping California meet its goal of decarbonizing the electrical system by 2045. Grid resiliency is a focus for EPIC investments.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2022

A realistic pilot test conducted by Porsche, the grid operator TransnetBW and consulting firm Intelligent Energy System Services (IE2S), has demonstrated that electrical balancing power can be stored in the high-voltage batteries of an intelligent swarm of electric cars. —Dr Rainer Pflaum, CFO TransnetBW.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

Called the Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System (ESS), Pramac’s technology—which features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE batteries taken from prototype and engineering test vehicles—supplies zero-emission power where access to the grid supply is limited or unavailable.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) are two-way communication technologies that involve the flow of electricity between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. These technologies are part of the broader concept known as smart charging or bidirectional charging.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Audi of America is offering qualified customers who purchase or lease a 2021 Audi e-tron or e-tron Sportback a subscription to Arcadia at no additional charge for up to five years. Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. 2021 Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Charging and energy are becoming a core business for Volkswagen; the company is building a universal and seamless eco-system for charging its electric models. models and soon also with the technology of bidirectional charging. models and soon also with the technology of bidirectional charging.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. Big Benefits One of the main values of connecting regional networks is that it enables, and is in fact critical for, incorporating renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

TAE Technologies , the world’s largest private fusion energy company, has spun-out a new subsidiary, TAE Power Solutions. TAE Power Solutions intends to deliver a novel technology to improve fundamentally the reliability, efficiency, longevity, and affordability of electric-powered products, from vehicles to renewable energy storage.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

Mack Trucks , part of the Volvo Group, has built a mobile off-grid charging system that’s integrated into the body of a Mack MD Electric truck. The mobile Mack MD Electric charging unit can be used for a limited time by customers who want to test the technology, and by dealers to facilitate EV demos.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

An influx of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging without coordination could prove challenging to the nation’s electric grid, according to research conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This effect is exacerbated when higher in-home power charging is adopted.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 20, 2023

Consumers Think Renewable Energy Inadequate for EV Charging Are They Right? Zero-emissions cars now populate the roads where they were once rare, and new models emerge regularly, but this growth calls the charging infrastructure into question. Renewable energy currently accounts for just 17% of electricity sources in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and BMW of North America (BMW) are collaborating to test how vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology can serve as a solution to offset growing demand on the power grid, improve reliability for electric customers, and maximize the usage of renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

A UPS-led consortium has deployed new smart-grid charging technology in London that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) without the need for the expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. UPS thinks this is a world first, right in the heart of a mega-city.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in late February demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck. ORNL’s bidirectional technology is fully compliant with grid power quality standards.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with two electric utilities, recently examined the causes, costs and lead times of distribution system upgrades anticipated for depot charging of short-haul heavy-duty trucks in the United States. kW per vehicle).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Volkswagen Group presented its technology roadmap for batteries and charging up to 2030 today on its first “Power Day”. Volkswagen is also vigorously pursuing expansion of the public fast-charging network globally. Both gigafactories will be powered with electricity from renewable energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

GM announced new commercial applications of its HYDROTEC fuel cell technology. They could also back up or temporarily replace grid-sourced electricity for residential and small commercial enterprises at times of power disruption. A palletized MPG to power military camps and installations quietly and efficiently.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

A team from Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, together with Daimler AG and the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management at the University of Stuttgart, is developing both the charging infrastructure and the energy management systems required to manage large fleets of EVs in a project called charge@work.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The BMW Group and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced an expanded partnership that further leverages renewable energy to sustainably power electric vehicles (EVs). ChargeForward is the first smart charging program to offer customers incentives for maximizing the integration of renewable energy while optimizing their EV charging.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Turbo Power Systems, Magnetic Systems Technology and Fuuse were partners in the project. Technology supplier Advantics provided support. This would allow it to provide the grid with a daily flexible power capacity of about 200 MW.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Electrify America is investing $2 million in solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in rural California that are not tied to the electrical grid. The investment will expand access to sustainable EV charging to drivers in rural areas, including the Central, Coachella, and Imperial Valleys.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

So, too, are enrollments in the company’s managed charging program, SmartCharge NY, which offers financial rewards for charging during off-peak hours. DC fast chargers provide 480 volts, offering 180 miles or more per hour of charging. Curbside Charging. Con Edison will share results from its V2G demo later this week.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is hosting a pitch event, ARPA-E’s Battery/Storage Exposition, on 14 January 2021, from 1:00-3:00 pm EST. This event will feature pitches from a select group of ARPA-E teams developing energy storage technologies. Open funding solicitations.

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