Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2022

Revel, NineDot Energy and Fermata Energy announced that the first Vehicle to Grid (V2G) program connected to NYC’s grid is now live at Revel’s Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse. The three bidirectional chargers can export approximately 45kW back to the grid. Photo Courtesy of Revel.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

DC chargers provide a higher amount of power to electric vehicles, hence requiring more from the grid. To ensure the grid can meet your demands, you’ll need to evaluate the expected EV traffic and their charging behaviors, such as peak charging times and duration of charges. Is There Local Grid Supply Competition?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

An electric school bus in Beverly, Massachusetts, successfully delivered power back to the electricity grid for more than 50 hours over the course of the summer using vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Image source: Thomas Built Buses.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 17, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday announced The Future of Vehicle Grid Integration: Harnessing the Flexibility of EV Charging, as part of DOE’s EVGrid Assist initiative. Department of Energy Vision for the Beneficial Integration of Electric Vehicles into the Electricity Grid appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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EV Box

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The electrical grid is a large and established network delivering electricity from producers to consumers, and connection to it can be quite complex. DC fast-charging stations almost always require a connection to the electrical grid to provide their fast-charging service.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

France and Ireland signed contracts on Friday to advance the Celtic Interconnector, a subsea electricity link to allow the exchange of electricity between the two EU countries. The post Ireland and France will connect their electricity grids – here’s how appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Cars Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The system was built using batteries reclaimed from electrified vehicles (HEV, PHEV, BEV, and FCEV) and is connected to the consumer electrical power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2021

ENGIE New Ventures, the corporate venture fund of ENGIE, is participating in a new round of investment to further the development of Connected Energy. Based in the United Kingdom, Connected Energy uses end-of-life EV batteries to create energy storage systems. —Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 9, 2024

The DOE has announced a new Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0003136 ), which offers up to $65 million for Connected Communities 2.0, This FOA has two major topic areas: Connected Communities, focused on grid edge technical measures in buildings, industry and transportation to prepare the electric grid for expected new loads.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

The electric car will play an important role as a power consumer in the digital energy world. As an energy storage device, the electric car has great potential to drive the energy transition forward and absorb peak loads resulting from regenerative generation. The devices are connected via a home energy management system (HEMS).

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2021

By the end of the project, Australia’s next grid-scale battery will be supported by 212 Megapacks. Overall, the Victorian Big Battery is a 300 MW grid-scale battery storage project. “As The post Tesla Megapack system in Victoria gets closer to grid connection appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The MoU underscores the signatories’ shared vision of integrating electric cars into the electricity system. The Elia Group is a key player in electricity transmission in Europe. The Group ensures that production and consumption are balanced, supplying 30 million end users with electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

Subscriptions of connected services for consumer and commercial Electric Vehicles (EVs), such as charging-station locator, eco-routing, and EV telematics, will grow 270% from 2020 to 2024, reaching 7 million subscribers by 2024, according to global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has launched Grid-eMotion Fleet, a scalable, modular and fully customizable solution for large-scale EV charging of smart public and commercial transport. Grid-eMotion Fleet comes in standard containers that integrate the grid connection and charging systems.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2020

California has more electric cars than any other state, and a local utility wants to put them to work powering the grid. Southern California Edison (SCE) plans to launch a demonstration project for "vehicle-to-grid" or "V2G" technology, in which vehicles both charge and discharge power to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

In continued efforts to support the growing electric vehicle (EV) segment, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The QCA7006AQ is compliant with the Home Plug Green PHY (HPGP) specification, which is the leading specification for implementing Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) systems. —Lars Boeryd, Sr.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

The California Independent System Operator (ISO), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) unveiled a comprehensive roadmap to assess the current market environment and regulatory policies for connecting new energy storage technology to the state’s power grid.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. Their grip over the backbone of U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $209 million in funding to 26 new national laboratory projects focusing on electric vehicles, advanced batteries and connected vehicles. EVs@Scale Lab Consortium addressing technical barriers to wide-scale EV adoption and integration with the grid, with ANL, INL, ORNL, PNNL and SNL.

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Electric Cars Report

MAY 24, 2023

Kia is introducing a suite of smart technologies that aim to make electric vehicle mobility more convenient, accessible, and efficient than ever before – with Kia Connect, Kia Charge and Kia Smart Charging: V1G (Automated Unidirectional Smart Charging), V2H/B (Vehicle-to-Home/Vehicle-to-Building), and V2G (vehicle-to-grid).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2022

A realistic pilot test conducted by Porsche, the grid operator TransnetBW and consulting firm Intelligent Energy System Services (IE2S), has demonstrated that electrical balancing power can be stored in the high-voltage batteries of an intelligent swarm of electric cars.

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Electric Vehicles India

MARCH 31, 2021

India’s first grid-connected li-ion battery-based energy storage system. India’s first grid-connected li-ion battery. MWh battery energy storage system will provide a better solution of power backup to preferential consumers in case of a grid outage. The TPDDL’s Rani Bagh substation of 0.52

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Intelligent Power Generation (IPG) will demonstrate the impact of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in UK electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, following a £1-million contract from Highways England. This growth will require high megawatt capacities across England’s road networks.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

BMW, Ford, and Honda on Tuesday announced a new company focusing on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) EV charging, which the partners claim will benefit both EV owners and electric utilities. Its main focus will be connecting EV owners in the U.S. Called ChargeScape, the company aims to start operations in 2024, pending regulatory approval.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The CEO and General Manager of Terna, Luigi Ferraris, and the Chief Operating Officer of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) in EMEA, Pietro Gorlier, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint trialing of sustainable mobility services and technologies such as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Tesla and Samsung have announced a new partnership over energy connectivity, which appears to be the reason behind Tesla’s API update. The electronics giant also makes it sounds like it could automatically shut down some devices when Tesla’s energy systems start using backup power in order to prolong the capacity to operate off-grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2016

UK-based CNG Fuels, in partnership with National Grid, has unveiled a new state-of-the-art filling station in Leyland, Lancashire, allowing vehicles to fill up on compressed natural gas (CNG) directly from the high-pressure local transmission system. —Philip Fjeld, director at CNG Fuels.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

Tesla customers will soon use home energy-storage systems to support the Texas power grid. Enrollment is open to SunRun customers who have that company’s solar panels connected to Tesla Powerwall batteries , and who have chosen Tesla Electric as their electricity provider.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Because the system is powered by electricity, there is also potential for integrating a hyperloop system’s energy storage technologies with variable energy resources. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has conducted an analysis on the potential effects of hyperloop systems on the electric grid, as well as on transportation energy demand.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

In the harbor, a transmission cable will be connected to the electric grid onshore. The agreement includes development of hydrogen production plants and ammonia plants, as the CMSR is an ideal power source for supply of stable, clean, and safe electricity, Seaborg said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 13, 2024

A lack of interoperability between key system components—vehicles, charging stations, charging networks, and the grid—and the software systems that support them is a threat to system reliability and broader EV adoption in the US, according to a study by EVSE operations and maintenance (O&M) service provider ChargerHelp!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2020

PowerCell Sweden AB has signed a memorandum of understanding with ABB Power Grids regarding a collaboration around fuel cell based zero emissions stationary power solutions. The MoU with ABB Power Grids is an important step and a great contribution to our increased efforts within the stationary segment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Connected Energy , a UK provider of site-integrated energy storage solutions, is heading a £1.3-million Connected Energy is based in Newcastle upon Tyne with a technical center near Norwich. Connected Energy is based in Newcastle upon Tyne with a technical center near Norwich. million (US$1.7-million)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

IEEE signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the American Center for Mobility (ACM) ( earlier post ), a global center for testing and validation, product development, education and standards work for connected and autonomous vehicles and other technologies. —Yaobin Chen, chair of IEEE TEC.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Hyundai, Kia, and Samsung announced a partnership Thursday to expand connectivity between vehicles and in-home devices—with potential benefits for EV owners. The Kia EV9 is the first E-GMP model to offer bidirectional charging in a form Americans can use—including vehicle-to-home (V2H) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities, with Wallbox.

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