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. The BMW Group has already succeeded in implementing methods of intelligent charging control in pilot projects.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2013

that uses aggregation software and solar charging canopies with integrated storage to manage the flow of solar power to benefit the electric grid. TimberRock will monitor the output of its solar charging stations, how much stored energy is available and when it can sell energy back to the grid to help meet peak demand.

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Plug N Drive

MAY 1, 2024

Introducing an incentive to make charging more affordable is an important step in encouraging EV adoption,” says Cara Clairman, President and CEO of Plug’n Drive. Introducing an incentive to make charging more affordable is an important step in encouraging EV adoption,” says Cara Clairman, President and CEO of Plug’n Drive.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Brazil’s second-largest private energy producer, China Three Gorges Corporation, which currently invests heavily in hydropower and wind farms, will expand its business into charging piles and further into solar energy in the future. Later this year, it will announce its entry into the solar space.

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My Energi

APRIL 25, 2024

Last week (19 April), the UK Government ruled-out recommendations from the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee to equalise VAT on public charging. [1] Plug-in grants will continue until at least 2025, however, for motorcycles, vans, taxis, trucks and wheelchair accessible vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2011

At Hannover Messe 2011, Siemens presented a development project for inductive charging (“Contactless Charging of Battery-Electric Vehicles”), developed in cooperation with BMW. The charging station is connected to the public grid by a primary coil that is completely underground. kW will be tested in an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The ICCT team considered battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs, plug-in hybrid EVs, natural gas, biofuels, and e-fuels.The study used the lifetime average carbon intensity of fuel and electricity mixes, and accounted for changes in the carbon intensity over vehicle lifetime given present energy policies. Source: The ICCT.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Yet standing in the way of adoption are myths about EV charging that date from the early days of electrification and still persist. Read on as we bust those myths and shed some light on the state of EV charging today. If the power is generated using solar or wind power, then EV driving is emission free.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute, 8 automakers and 15 utilities are working to develop and to demonstrate an open platform that would integrate plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) with smart grid technologies enabling utilities to support PEV charging regardless of location. Automakers and V2G. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

With bidirectional EV charging, you can actually make money from your EV, among other exciting benefits. This is a common issue for many EV owners approaching the charging world. This article is your lighthouse: it will give you some background on what bidirectional EV charging means and how it works. But how does this work?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

PRIMOVE is a Business Unit of Bombardier that specializes in creating market-ready solutions in the field of electromobility; its portfolio comprises integrated charging, battery, and power solutions for all types of electric rail and road vehicles. Batteries Heavy-duty Infrastructure Plug-ins Smart charging'

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Ford is greening up some of its dealerships in the US, installing wind and solar systems to generate clean electricity to keep the lights on and power electric car charging points. Now with a range of two plug-in hybrids and one fully electric car, the firm is exploring green electricity too, to e[.].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Solar panel output depends on the weather, for example, as do wind turbines. At the other end of the grid, electric vehicles need charging for only a certain amount of time every day, and when not in use could be used as temporary batteries to store energy from renewables.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From 2022, new homes and buildings, such as supermarkets and workplaces, as well as buildings undergoing major renovations, will be required to install electric power under new legislation announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 22 November Car charging pile. Lack of home charging piles. part of the mission.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, has launched a multiyear plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) demonstration project using GridPoint’s smart charging software ( earlier post ). BGE will also evaluate the impact a PHEV fleet has on the company’s carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mercedes-Benz Cars has begun production of the first Mercedes-Benz compact vehicles with plug-in hybrid drive ( earlier post ) at the Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in southern Germany. The production launch of the Mercedes-Benz A-class in two plug-in hybrid models is a strategic milestone as part of our global electric initiative.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Ford PHEV charge settings user interface. Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. We are designing what plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles will be capable of in the future.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2016

Small solar-panel installations have allowed homeowners to lower carbon emissions, and perhaps save some money on electricity as well. Electric-car drivers with home solar installations can also further decrease the carbon footprint of a vehicle by charging it using solar power.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This advantage remains true even when considering the electricity utilized for charging EVs. However, the production of electricity for EV charging can result in carbon emissions, depending on the energy source. One key distinction is that EVs produce no direct tailpipe emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

IBM Research has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers conveniently to charge electric vehicles and monitor their energy costs, using mobile devices. If less solar energy is being generated, the charging process can adapt automatically.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

This project will demonstrate and test an electric vehicle’s ability to receive and respond to charge instructions based on the grid condition and the vehicle’s battery state. Once plugged into a charge post, the Honda Fit EV initiates a charge request via the vehicles telematics system.

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Plug N Drive

MARCH 20, 2024

March 20, 2024, Toronto, Ontario – Plug’n Drive, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across Canada, proudly announces the appointment of Ottawa-based Tracy Walden to the newly-created role of Vice President of Communications.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

higher than in 2022, when hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and BEV sales made up 12.9% The second half of 2023 saw the highest share of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and BEVs of total LDV sales at 17.9%. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

The Congressional Research Service last year noted increasing interest among producers of distributed energy resources (DERs)—such as rooftop solar—to sell electricity to neighbors. Electricity generated from renewable resources such as solar and wind that customers cannot use can be diverted to the grid, but there are limits.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the EV world, there is a concept called “well to wheel emissions,” which considers fossil fuel emissions during the charging process depending on the electricity generation itself. It is important to remember that even if you have an EV that does not emit any tailpipe emissions, your charging process may generate well to wheel emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Based on the know-how acquired with the BMW i3, numerous innovations have also been achieved in the fields of drive, power electronics and charging technology. When operated exclusively with regeneratively generated energy, such as wind or solar power, the CO 2 footprint was even reduced by more than 50%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

million grant to the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to lead development of an advanced management platform for integrating electric vehicle (EV) charging with utility-scale energy systems. The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 —Mike Ferry, PI and CSE’s senior manager for advanced energy projects.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

He went on to say that the new Volkswagen Tiguan GTE embodies “ our determination to systematically take the plug-in hybrid to further classes and segments. ”. Winterkorn also announced that Group companies would introduce 20 more electric cars and plug-in hybrids by 2020—from compact cars to the next Phaeton and Audi A8. “

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Energy is something we take for granted, because we just plug things into the wall, and it feels as inevitable as air. The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. But solar is just the opening gambit. volts for about 60 hours.

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My Energi

MARCH 6, 2023

Jordan Brompton, co-founder and CMO of myenergi, gives her thoughts on the EV charging trends we’re likely to see in 2023 and discusses why the next 12 months will be a pivotal period for the UK’s transition to electrification. So, as we kick-start 2023, what themes are we likely to see emerge from the EV charging sector? New products?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The PNNL technology tells a vehicle’s battery charger when to start and stop charging based upon existing conditions on the electrical grid. has licensed smart charging controller technology developed at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for incorporation into its charging station equipment.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 26, 2021

This transition will have a big impact on how utility companies deliver the energy needed to charge all of these new battery-powered cars. WeaveGrid gives utilities visibility into EV drivers’ charging activity at an aggregated level and provides some ability to control how and when owners charge their electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, introduced its new 5-micron ELCRES HTV150 dielectric film for high-temperature, high-voltage, professional-grade capacitor applications, such as traction inverters for hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles (xEV).

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Prius Prime PHEV Plug-in Hybrid Technology in an All-New Package Toyota is taking the lead suggesting how you should drive a plug-in hybrid. Smart owners will quickly learn that, by plugging-in daily, they will reap the benefits of electric driving. Performance of 0-60 mph in 6.6 kilowatt charger.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has begun taking orders through Toyota dealers around Japan for the Prius PHV (plug-in hybrid). With its new high-capacity lithium-ion battery fully charged, the Prius PHV’s EV-mode cruising range is 26.4 Five types of services are packaged and provided free of charge to Prius PHV owners for three years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

To achieve this goal, the key factors include: electrifying the vehicle fleet; charging with green energy; improving battery technology, an extensive use of recycled materials; and renewable energy in production. Globally, the portfolio already includes six—and soon nine—all-electric models.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

At the official opening, Gorden Wagener, Head of Design Daimler AG, presented the Mercedes-Benz G-Code plug-in hybrid crossover show car. In addition to regeneration and plug-in battery technology, the “multi-voltaic silver” paint finish acts like a giant solar cell with excellent efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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