The Truth About Cars

JUNE 25, 2025

Software-defined vehicles are effectively the final frontier of those trends and come with endless opportunities to gatekeep repairs, commercialize infotainment systems and upsell features. Further integrating connectivity simultaneously opens up those vehicles to fresh vulnerabilities. The following may sound like science fiction.

Vehicles

Charged EVs

MARCH 6, 2025

REEs platform includes both electrical and mechanical connection points to make it easy for upfitters to create an endless variety of vocational vehicles. This allows almost unlimited flexibility in vehicle designa huge advantage in the commercial vehicle market, where one size definitely cannot fit all.

Design

Cars That Think

MAY 29, 2025

Floating turbines are designed to function farther offshore in waters too deep to anchor turbine towers to the sea floor, and the fledgling industry has yet to install a single commercial-scale turbine in U.S. The turmoil may prove particularly devastating for floating wind projects like VolturnUS+.

Wind

Charged EVs

APRIL 28, 2025

Load management is a critical component of any EV infrastructure deployment, but multi-unit applications require different algorithms from those used in commercial fleet settings, which tend to have more predictable vehicle usage patterns. Charged : Youre targeting multifamily, workplace and retail applications rather than commercial fleets.

Fleet

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Unless you dont have a way to easily install or access home charging, your excuses are quickly disappearing, though. AC (alternating current) is whats supplied to your home or what flows through a commercial electrical outletor the destination chargers that you might plug into for a few hours, or overnight.

Charging

Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2025

Since in those days each chip contained very few functions (like a four-bit adder or a quad flip-flop), you had to connect up hundreds or thousands of such digital logic chips to actually build a reasonable system, Samueli said. Have you considered commercializing it? I got stock options to join PairGain, Samueli said. Samueli said.

Atlanta

InsideEVs

JULY 28, 2025

That includes Ionna , Walmart , Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging , Electrify America, BP Pulse and Greenlane, which is developing a charging network for commercial truck fleets. Gallery: Alpitronic Chargers 5 Source: Alpitronic Over the past 12 months, Alpitronic has inked deals with a growing roster of American partners in quick succession.

America

Charged EVs

MARCH 18, 2025

As CEO Kameale Terry explained to Charged , the issues that cause chargers to go down tend to arise at the connection points between different software systems, and typically fall outside the scope of product warranties. ChargerHelp addresses the gaps and smooths out connection points. Its not connected to anythingno network, no app.

Charging

InsideEVs

AUGUST 1, 2025

According to Moses, Electrify America did win some NEVI money, mostly on behalf of its commercial clients that it sells turnkey charging solutions to. It’s evaluating the customer experience there and getting a sense of automakers’ plans for NACS-equipped models before deciding where else to install the plugs and how quickly to do it. “We

America

Charged EVs

MAY 22, 2025

The company works with multiple software providers, vehicle OEMs, EVSE providers and installers, and maintenance service providers. Some companies spent big to install charging infrastructure, only to be forced to spend more a few years later to rip and replace hardware that turned out not to meet their needs. Scott Davidson: Correct.

Fleet

Charged EVs

MAY 9, 2025

A public charging or fleet charging siteor pretty much any installation larger than one or two Level 2 chargersconsists of more than just the chargers that drivers interact with. ABB makes all kinds of switchgear and other commercial electrical gadgets. Putignano told me.

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2020

By using the integrated battery as a buffer, Boost Charger is able to boost the existing power at the site, thus delivering the highest power output in the region while enabling widespread deployment at any commercial location. Driver payments can be made through the EV Connect network, RFID, or credit card. a subsidiary of bp.

Installation

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group and a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, has installed charging infrastructure for a fleet of electrified commercial trucks as part of its ongoing partnership with Volvo Trucks. Heavy-duty fleets have unique charging characteristics and needs.

Volvo

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2021

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its 2021 – 2022 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements; one of the 10 items in the list was “Require Collision Avoidance and Connected Vehicle Technologies on All Vehicles”. Install Crash Resistant Recorders and Establish Flight Data Monitoring Programs.

Connect

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For years, commercial long-haul, utility, and emergency trucking fleets have been converting their existing trucks into hybrid and full electric vehicles to save money and reduce emissions. Their industry connections and contracting flexibilities greatly shortens the time to bring capability to the Warfighter.

Kits

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

Ford unveiled the all-electric 2022 F-150 Lightning Pro, a version of the electric F-150 Lightning ( earlier post ) targeted at commercial customers. More than 145 million miles of telematics data show that for the average F-150 commercial customer in the US, 95% of their daily travel is less than 174 miles.

F-150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

General Motors introduced Ultium Home and Ultium Commercial, which in combination with the existing Ultium Charge 360, create an ecosystem of energy management products and services that will be housed under a new business unit called GM Energy.

GM

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Hitachi Astemo, Trend Micro and its subsidiary VicOne have expanded their collaboration to provide security solutions for connected cars, aiming for commercialization by 2025. The three companies aim to commercialize the solution for connected car by 2025.

Connect

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The project seeks to develop and commercialize the next generation of domestically manufactured DC Fast Charging (DCFC) technology in support of the federal government’s clean energy and climate priorities. SCALEUP selectees demonstrate a viable path to commercial deployment and the ability to attract private sector investments.

Commercial

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The V2G testing center is part of Austin SHINES , an Austin Energy project that is testing how energy storage at grid, commercial-, and residential applications-scale to help increase the penetration of solar energy to reduce peak demand, increase grid resiliency and achieve the City of Austin’s renewable energy and storage goals by 2027.

Grid

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This charging point, developed by Repsol and Ibil , has been installed in a Repsol service station on the N-I road where it goes through the city of Tolosa in Gipuzkoa. A 50 kW quick charging point can thus be put into operation using only a 15 kW grid connection. Ingeteam, Cidetec and Gureak also collaborated on the project.

Charging

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The 5G Automotive Association ( 5GAA ) hosted an interoperability demo of cellular-data-enabled connected vehicle (C-V2X) applications in Berlin. Vodafone Germany and Ford show connected vehicle technology (V2X) that could alert drivers to an accident ahead, moments after it has happened (via eCall Plus).

Connect

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At the 17 th Supercharging conference this week in Dresden, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what it says is the first water-cooled electric supercharger developed for “quasi-continuous” boosting of commercial diesel engines, including those developed for off highway applications. tonnes gross vehicle weight. Earlier post.)

Water

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

Honda plans to install a stationary fuel cell power station on its corporate campus in Torrance, Calif. A unique advantage of the four-quad design is the flexibility to change the layout of the four individual fuel cell units to suit the installation environment, accommodating a cuboid, L-shape, Z shape or other packaging requirements.

Honda

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The CellPack Stationary is specially developed for the telecommunication industry, an industry that every year installs hundreds of thousands of smaller gensets to keep people around the world connected. The system can be installed as a hybrid solution combined with renewable energy sources such as solar cells or wind turbines.

Fuel

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Continental and Knorr-Bremse AG have entered into a partnership to develop a complete system solution for highly automated driving (HAD) in commercial vehicles, initially focused on automated convoy driving (platooning). Knorr-Bremse will offer the complete system to commercial vehicle manufacturers in Europe, North America and Asia.

Commercial

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This makes it the world’s first highly automated driverless parking function (SAE Level 4) officially to be approved for commercial use. This process relies on the interplay between the intelligent infrastructure supplied by Bosch and installed in the parking garage and Mercedes-Benz automotive technology.

Mercedes

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

Due to the increasingly demanding requirements imposed on the thermal management of modern e-vehicles, the number of individual components and connections for the cooling and coolant circuit is growing quickly. A complete system featuring a compact design, Rheinmetall’s new coolant system saves precious installation space.

Plug

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The motor can be used to drive an existing gearbox directly or has the option of being connected to an OEM single-speed transmission. The configurable OEM motor and inverter assembly is supplied with a kit of components comprising a power cable (500 mm long), communications cable, coolant pipe connectors, and motor installation instructions.

Motoring

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

To do so, it will have an installed capacity of 400 MW by 2025 and will exceed 1.2 The company is also planning to put on track next November a first train that will allow demonstrating and validating the concept in conditions similar to those of commercial operation. GW by 2030.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

Russelectric, a manufacturer of distributed energy and microgrid control systems for mission-critical commercial facilities that was acquired by Siemens in 2018, has added electrical vehicle charging capabilities at its Hingham, Massachusetts, facility. These Level 2 charging stations have a capacity to charge electric vehicles at up to 7.2

Massachusetts

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This approach will enable GM to expand its reach to a larger, more diverse group of commercial customers, helping organizations meet the growing demand for zero-emissions technology while achieving their own sustainability targets.

GM

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

This transition will start in 2025, when the turbines will be commercially guaranteed capable of using a mix of 30% hydrogen and 70% natural gas fuel. The power plant is connected to the Los Angeles power grid by an existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission line.

Los Angeles

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

As the first fully connected integral system solution, the third generation of the Sprinter demonstrates the development of the division from purely a vehicle manufacturer into a provider of complete transport and mobility solutions, the company said. (Duisburg is home to the world’s largest inland port.) Mercedes-Benz is investing some €2.5

Connect

Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

These new projects will accelerate a statewide hydrogen refueling station network that will support the commercial launch of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in 2015 and boost the installation of electric vehicle chargers along highway corridors and in workplaces. ITM Power Inc. Ontario CNG Station Inc.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

ABB launched the Terra Smart Connect Duo , the first 22 kW AC & DC fast charging station tested and proven to successfully support the Daimler smart electric drive and Renault Zoe using AC charging, as well as with CHAdeMO cars such as the publicly announced Nissan EV200, Mitsubishi Outlander, Citroen Berlingo and Peugeot Partner.

DC

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This same hardware platform is already commercially shipping in the company’s 30kW 480Vac photovoltaic (PV) inverter, which NREL is currently installing on a solar parking structure at their Vehicle Testing and. forecasted), lower installation costs due to its lightweight design, and V2G capabilities, according to the company.

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