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Is your smart charger about to become dumb? Don’t get caught out, says myenergi

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With thousands of new EVs hitting the roads this month to coincide with the March plate change, myenergi is recommending that drivers choose carefully when it comes to specifying a future-proof home charger, ensuring that it’s WiFi or ethernet-connected to ensure that it doesn’t ‘go dumb’ in the future.

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Li-ion Supplier Saft Partners with Apollo Solar on US DOE Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) Project

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Saft is supplying a lithium-ion battery system to provide energy storage for one of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) projects funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The design will incorporate energy storage and two-way communications between solar electrical systems and utilities.

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Northvolt to build third gigafactory in Germany

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The new gigafactory increases Northvolt’s pipeline of battery manufacturing capacity under development to more than 170 GWh. If you use coal in your production, you embed a fair amount of CO 2 into your battery, but if we use clean energy, we can build a very sustainable product. It matters how we produce a battery cell.

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BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

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The energy control stations at BMW Group Plants Dingolfing and Landshut are stepping up their activities in the balancing-power market in Germany. Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant.

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myenergis Insight Into the CMA Report and the EV Charging Market

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OEMs and dealerships currently have a lot of control over the market, exclusively recommending and partnering with selected EV charger manufactures. According to the CMAs report, these manufacturers hold between 65% and 95% of the market already. Currently, a charger need only connect to the internet to be branded as smart.

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BMW begins Phase 2 of ChargeForward Program with PG&E to study advanced electric vehicle charging; results from Phase 1

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Phase 1 of the program demonstrated the viability of creating grid value by optimizing smart charging of EVs. As in the first phase of the pilot, BMW will ensure participant-drivers’ expressed mobility needs are always met, while using remaining flexibility to create grid value. Earlier post.) Phase One Findings.

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4 Ways That Your Business Benefits From EV Power Management Software

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Whether it be EV manufacturers, charging station managers or drivers, everyone connected to the EV industry hopes to save money. Decreased Upfront Costs for Property Owners As we mentioned before, electric vehicles can consume a lot of energy.

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