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FedEx Express doubles and diversifies all-electric fleet with 24 new units; adding more than 4,000 new, fuel-efficient vehicles in total

Green Car Congress

These vehicles will be studied to help evolve all-electric vehicle technology and to establish a foundation of understanding on utility grid needs by modeling impact of future all-electric vehicle growth on the shared energy grid. Since launching our first Sprinter in 2000, we have put close to 1.4

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Texas Rep. asks Elon Musk to work with gov’t to improve the US’ power grid

Teslarati

He believes that the growth of EV charging networks, together with the Texas Department of Transportation’s plan to install charging stations every 50 miles along Texas motorways, might cause power outages across the nation. and its stakeholders is largely dependent on a reliable electricity grid,” he wrote. .

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Renault Trucks and Nestlé Switzerland partner on all-electric medium-duty refrigerated truck

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They will be called upon to supply between 30 and 50 sales outlets every day over a distance of between 60 and 100 km (37 to 62 miles). Operating range of the trucks is around 140 km (87 miles). These vehicles can reach a maximum speed of 90 km/h (56 mph) and have a system of recovering energy during braking.

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UC Riverside opening Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative; integration of solar energy, battery storage and electric and hybrid vehicles

Green Car Congress

The remaining half megawatt is at CE-CERT about two miles from campus. Two megawatt-hours of battery energy storage. The batteries will store energy for distribution during periods when there is insufficient solar power generation. Batteries Electric (Battery) Plug-ins Power Generation Smart charging Smart Grid Solar V2X'

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Microsoft Predicts Weather for Individual Farms

Cars That Think

The weather forecast out of the closest town, which is 50 miles away, predicts that temperatures will stay above freezing for the next few days, and so you decide to go ahead and fertilize. IBM , who owns The Weather Company , already uses machine learning to make predictions more accurate, as do other companies like Tomorrow.io.

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131. ELECTRIFYING EVERYTHING IN THE 2020s

Qnovo

Automotive companies and their supply chain are inexorably transforming. Electric utilities will implement more energy storage projects on their grids — partly driven by regulations as well as the proliferation of clean-energy grids with distributed wind and solar generation.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Gallery: Plugging in at home Battery swap stations are a concept often associated with Better Place , an EV infrastructure company. The idea is that when your car needs more energy, you can drive your car into a station and, like an automated car wash, your depleted battery is replaced robotically by one that has a full charge.