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Solar and Battery Companies Rattle Utility Powerhouses

Cars That Think

All eyes these days may be on Elon Musk's space venture—which has just put people in orbit —but here on Earth you can now get your monthly electric bill courtesy of a different Musk enterprise. Tesla and its partner Octopus Energy Germany recently rolled out retail utility services in two large German states. kWh battery wall unit.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change. This was plain wrong.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Green Car Congress

The whole world of electricity storage has been using metal ions in various charge states, but there is a limited number that you can put into solution and use to store energy, and none of them can economically store massive amounts of renewable energy. The quinones are dissolved in water, which prevents them from catching fire.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. It’s easier to sell to the light-duty market. The more suppliers you have, the more competition you have, which means the pricing and performance from those suppliers are going to be better. WattEV saw the need and they moved prior to the market growth.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

An (expected) high price tag. For now, the Circuit has all sorts of EV appeal, but itll be up to groups that Chrysler cant control - the Presidential auto task force, the higher-end customer market, etc. - I think electric cars are the furture and this unit has some real world experience. Small size. New technology.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Is it becuase US market prefers a "home" product? So the car uses an electrical store to power the drive motor.