Charged EVs
DECEMBER 21, 2022
A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 For fleet operators, concepts like demand charges and charging management software are entirely new. One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles. hours, while a 250 kW unit can cut that to 1.5
Plug In Partners
JANUARY 28, 2008
Priority given to recently closed facilities or facilities in danger of closing SEC 133 Inclusion of Electric Drive in Energy Policy Act of 1992 Adds PHEVs, hybrids, and Neighborhood Electric Vehicles to list of those vehicles receiving credit under Epact fleet requirements.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 27, 2009
million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood. Bright has built a “mule&# or concept prototype with a working drive train that it demonstrated to select guests and policy makers in December. The onboard gas engine largely exists to recharge the batteries for the electric engine.
Setec Powerr
APRIL 26, 2022
Most EVs are hampered from driving long distances by the gap between charging stations and the time it takes to recharge their batteries, which have limited range. You have to drive through strange neighborhoods and try to locate chargers in vast parking lots where GPS is known to drop out of service.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2015
The Route extended range electric powertrains incorporate a range-extending genset designed to recharge the high-power battery pack (currently from A123 Systems) and Wrightspeed’s own geared traction drive (GTD) ( earlier post ). Weighing in at 250 lbs (113.4 Jaguar was using a turbine from Bladon Jets. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
JULY 30, 2013
As a visual cue, the pure battery-electric version only has the recharging port; an i3 with the range extender will also have a fueling port on the front quarter.). And if the battery has to be recharged at a public charging station, the driver is given a choice of available stations in the neighborhood.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
The pure electric vehicles, for reserve, must carry heavy and expensive batteries—which add expense as well as weight—and must have access to high-powered recharging stations [ 1 ]. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel.
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