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ABB, Fastned support Autocharge automatic authorization for charging sessions

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Autocharge enables a charge session to be automatically started after a driver connects his or her vehicle to the charger without requiring the use of an RFiD card, payment card or mobile app. The Autocharge function works with older, recent and new vehicles with a CCS charging connection.

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ABB and Volvo Buses partnering on fast-charging system for hybrid and electric buses

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ABB and Volvo Buses are partnering to co-develop and to commercialize electric and hybrid buses with open standards-based direct current (DC) fast charging systems. The flash stations are connected to the 50 kVA electricity network and also have a 3kWh storage unit (supercap) for smoothing peaks in consumption.

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ABB acquires Epyon to expand offerings in EV charging infrastructure

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a provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure solutions focusing on direct current (DC) fast-charging stations and network charger software. Founded in 2005, Epyon is headquartered in Rijswijk, Netherlands, has an R&D center in Eindhoven and sales resources across Europe.

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Epyon supporting open source OCP protocol for back-office integration for EV fast chargers

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Foundation, a initiative of the collaborating gas and electricity network operators in the Netherlands, and other companies. Epyon’s Terra charge stations are the first DC chargers to offer compatibility with OCPP, a free-to-use standard.

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Rocsys robots help to make EV fleet charging more reliable

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Netherlands-based Rocsys makes robotic devices that allow EVs to be charged without human intervention (see the feature in our January/February 2020 issue). The majority of our customers now are actually more in these commercial fleets, so we decided to focus more on this. What kind of problems is it solving in each use case?

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HVDC Networks Come to Europe

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But what’s most interesting about the mammoth, £580 million project isn’t so much the turbines as the subsea transmission link that will connect the wind farm to the Scottish mainland. Energy from the AC source is stored in DC capacitors in the submodules. An inverter there can feed into the mainland AC grid.

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SAIC showcases battery-electric Maxus EV80 van range at IAA

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Maxus is presenting a range of zero emission EV80 battery electric vans at the 67 th IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hannover. Charging time is just two hours while using a DC charger. The vehicle is equipped to enable both AC and DC charging capability as standard, for optimal flexibility.

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