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BMW Group and Vattenfall Europe begin second phase of MINI E fleet test in Berlin

Green Car Congress

The MINI E Fleet trials began in 2009 in the USA (New York, Los Angeles and in the state of New Jersey), UK (Oxford / London) and Germany (Munich and Berlin). and Chinese partners are examining ways to support the use of renewable energy sources for electric vehicles.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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Combined with a Chinese manufacturing boom, that lowered the overall cost of panels by 40 percent this year, Solyndra was unable to compete. New Jersey is second only to California in adoption of solar infrastructure. a US-based public company engaged in developing and commercializing a revolutionary new solar power technology.

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

Charged EVs

The testers conducted nearly 150 tests at 28 stations (4 each from 7 different networks) in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. We compared, for example, how the Chinese OEMs are performing compared to the European ones.

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The Tailwinds Behind Massive Growth of EV Charging

EV Connect

In the last 6 months alone, the United Kingdom, California, New Jersey, Quebec, and Massachusetts have announced a ban on the sale of internal combustion vehicles within their borders by 2035. Mandate Tailwinds Both at home and abroad, governments continue to roll out EV mandates of all shapes and sizes.

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HVDC Networks Come to Europe

Cars That Think

In 2020, Chinese utility giant State Grid started up the world’s first meshed DC grid—a four-node, 500-kV ring near Beijing Ultimately, European grid planners foresee a day when today’s HVDC projects interconnect to form a meshed DC network stretching across the North Sea and beyond. In addition, the U.K.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, there are lush cultural gardens inspired by the islands’ Hawaiian, Japanese and Chinese heritage — think lagoons with koi and sprawling banana trees — surrounding the Terminal 2 ticketing lobby and the airport’s E gates. At Daniel K. Malkin said. “I