Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

The Netherlands-based Fastned, the company building a European network of fast charging stations, saw its first two stations break-even in March. The final step to profitability of the company is also to cover depreciation and finance costs. The Fastned stations are prepared for strong growth of the number of electric cars.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As more consumers purchase an EV, an open and fair charging network is needed to ensure fairness in the market for current and future EV drivers. In order to keep EVs on the road, public charging stations will need to be economical, equitably distributed, appealing to use, and wired to a robust power grid.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

The partnership will leverage technologies from both companies seeking to lower the so-called “full life cycle” costs of batteries – key for the operating costs of Nio’s thousands of battery-swapping and charging stations, William Li, Nio’s founder and CEO, told reporters in Beijing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

A UPS-led consortium has deployed new smart-grid charging technology in London that overcomes the challenge of simultaneously recharging an entire fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) without the need for the expensive upgrade to the power supply grid. —Peter Harris, director of sustainability, UPS Europe. in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

Panasonic Corporation will begin mass- production this month of a compact, secure and long-life lithium-ion battery system the company has developed for European homes. This marks the first time for the company to produce in volume such a system designed for Europe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

With more than one billion people—and potential cell phone subscribers—living in remote areas with no accessible power grid, operators are often forced to continuously power cellular base stations using diesel fuel.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2023, Kelley Blue Book reported an unprecedented purchase of 1,189,051 electric vehicles in the United States alone, while global EV sales are projected to range between 9.6 Load management facilitates cost reduction by sharing power among multiple chargers, while demand response enables hosts to engage in grid optimization programs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) and Generation mPower LLC (Generation mPower) dedicated the B&W mPower Integrated System Test (IST) facility in Bedford County, Va., The IST facility supports further development of the B&W mPower reactor technology that represents a new generation of smaller, scalable nuclear power plants.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The federal government and automakers have set new goals for electric vehicle sales, and now it’s up to the business world and EV charging companies like Blink to provide the right number of EV chargers by 2030. million public chargers, the less ready drivers will be to purchase an EV. How many more EV chargers does the US need?

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EV Connect

JUNE 5, 2023

This technology has huge potential upsides not only for EV drivers but also for businesses and even the entire electrical grid. Yet, only a few vehicle manufacturers and utility companies have invested in it so far — and that needs to change. What Is Vehicle-to-Grid Charging? Thus far, only two cars in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Vattenfall will purchase the new batteries from the BMW plant in Dingolfing and use them in all storage projects. The batteries—each with a capacity of 33 kWh—are equipped with a BMW-owned battery management system and are also used by the car manufacturer in the BMW i3.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

The e-gas project consists of two main components: Audi is contributing to the construction of offshore North Sea wind turbines which will generate clean power,that is then fed into the public power grid. Audi wants to use green power to produce and also operate its electric-drive e-tron models in the future.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Recently, the Ministry of Transport, the National Energy Administration, the State Grid Corporation of China, and China Southern Power Grid Corporation jointly issued the Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of Charging Infrastructure along the Highway, establishing three phased construction goals.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

The Southern California Gas Company system alone is made up of over 100,000 miles of pipeline. This study suggests that we could leverage that installed infrastructure for storage and significantly increase the amount of renewable power generation deployed in California.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Through a converter that’s usually present in the charger, it allows vehicles to send energy directly back to the grid. This can facilitate more energy efficiency for a local power grid and lead to cost savings by enabling charger owners to get paid for helping maintain grid reliability — something we will discuss more below.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Key features of the FAME scheme include: Financial Incentives for Buyers: The FAME scheme offers financial incentives to consumers who purchase electric and hybrid vehicles. The additional load from charging stations may necessitate investments in grid capacity and stability.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

“Smart grid supports EV and PHEV deployment through real-time pricing structures and bi-directional metering. Bi-directional metering would enable customers to purchase energy at off-peak hours and sell unused, stored energy back to the utility during peak periods at higher rates. Zenergy Power Inc.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

As a receptive audience of engineers and workers cheered his plans, Obama pledged to put a million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015, and highlighted his offer of up to $7,500 in tax credits for Americans who purchase electric vehicles. The new $2.4-billion

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The investment consists of an initial investment and additional purchases of CRI equity over a 3-year period. Geely Group will become a major shareholder of CRI and will gain representation on the company’s Board of Directors. The companies say they a vision for a larger role for methanol as a clean and sustainable fuel worldwide.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Installation can be costly, but dramatically speeds at-home EV charging time, depending on the exact charger model and local power grid access. CHAdeMO , yet another DC charging system type, with a different plug configuration, defined by the CHAdeMO Association and employed by its member companies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Virtually all major vehicle manufacturers and several start-up companies are offering—or are planning to offer soon—a PEV for sale in the US market. However, consumer demand for PEVs is quite uncertain and, barring another global spike in oil prices, may be limited to a minor percentage of new vehicle purchasers (e.g.,

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Many of us on Capitol Hill see the potential of plug-in hybrids ,” Cantwell said, describing a bill she has introduced to encourage early production and purchase of plug-ins. (clip) The keynote speaker, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), plunged directly into the policy fray. How would those results be achieved?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Fisker Ocean will have a set of V2X technologies that enable owners to recharge other EVs, send power to the electrical grid, and use their vehicles as a back-up source of emergency power for their homes. The company calls these technologies PowerCar, Power Grid, and PowerHouse.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

“A coalition of auto makers, battery manufacturers, utility operators and shipping companies wants the U.S. A coalition of auto makers, battery manufacturers, utility operators and shipping companies wants the U.S. More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Document that renewable resources provide EV charging at a delivered cost comparable to the Experimental Tariff Rates approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E). Demonstrate that a DC-linked chargeport is more efficient than an AC-linked chargeport.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A Tesla Megapack is powering a large housing factory completely off-grid in Patterson, California, with energy from a large array of on-site, PVGraf solar panels. The factory isn’t connected to the local power grid, and this is the first time a Tesla Megapack has been deployed and running completely off-grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

We bought the buses, great expense purchasing the buses, and then they can’t charge the buses because they haven’t already done the planning permission to get the charging stations added into the bus depot, which just was this staggering level of interconnect whereas, one hand, the national government is very— “Yes, meeting our target goals.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. American Honda Motor Company, Inc.,

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Noodoe

JANUARY 7, 2022

Also, the majority of these vehicles sit unused during the summer when electricity demands are often the highest and take the greatest toll on the power grid. This makes them perfect targets for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration. . This means making sure that power isn’t being divided between chargers when it doesn’t need to be.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

While plug-in electric vehicles will not threaten the integrity of the power grid as a whole, they will have an immediate local impact on neighborhood distribution infrastructure. EVs are expected to be purchased in clusters around neighborhoods that have historically seen high adoption of hybrid vehicles, Pike notes in the report.

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APRIL 28, 2009

Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine Twitter Tennessee may be getting a jump-start on preparations for the electric car, but how quickly Americans take to it and how enthusiastically power companies support it remain key questions as the government and automakers push for more alternative-fuel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

GE Aviation, which consumes more than 10 million gallons of jet fuel annually at its engine testing centers, has signed an agreement to purchase cellulosic synthetic biofuel from The D’Arcinoff Group (DG), based in Washington, DC, to be used for production and development testing of GE jet engines, starting in 2016. Click to enlarge.

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EV Connect

JUNE 13, 2022

While many experts believe that EVs outselling traditional gas-powered vehicles is inevitable, the rate at which EVs become industry standard will vary greatly depending on the factors below. While President Biden has set a goal for half of all vehicles purchased to be electric by 2030, currently only 1% of vehicles on the road are electric.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Car manufacturers: BMW AG, Daimler AG, Ford, General Motors LLC, Honda R&D, Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Nissan, Renault, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen. Industrial gas companies : Air Liquide, Air Products, The Linde Group. Industrial gas companies : Air Liquide, Air Products, The Linde Group.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

If it’s manufactured on a ‘dirty’ power grid it becomes a major source of emissions over the EV lifecycle. Most major petrol companies have also installed EV chargers at many of their sites. The New Zealand Power Grid. In 2021, Global EV purchases jumped to 6.6 THE BOTTOM LINE.

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