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ABB wins 1st commercial order for 600 kW 15-second flash charging technology; electric buses in Geneva

Green Car Congress

This will be the world’s fastest flash-charging connection technology taking less than 1 second to connect the bus to the charging point. As this current is up to 10 times less than would be the case without storage, the connection can be made with a cheaper and more readily available low-power supply. Click to enlarge.

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2020 EV Charging Infrastructure Best-in-Test: Rating the DC fast charging user experience

Charged EVs

If EVs are to replace fossil-fuel vehicles, they need to be able to make long highway trips, which means that DC fast charging needs to be reliable, convenient, affordable and ubiquitous. umlaut tested three locations for each of five different charging network operators: Electrify America, EVgo, ChargePoint, EV Connect and Greenlots.

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ABB charges into the future with Formula E

Charged EVs

Formula E is a very unique application, because not only are we taking this equipment and shipping it all around the world, but we’re also connecting it to so many different power sources and different grids,” said Medeiros. Don’t most of today’s e-buses offer both Level 2 and DC charging? You go to 350, you go to 600, a megawatt.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And so that's what we call "DC fast charging." New DC fast-charging stations are being built at a fairly fast clip. The challenge for the makers there is that there are multiple DC fast charging networks out there run by different companies. This is not something you would do at home. There are multiple vehicles out there.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

And so that's what we call "DC fast charging." New DC fast-charging stations are being built at a fairly fast clip. The challenge for the makers there is that there are multiple DC fast charging networks out there run by different companies. This is not something you would do at home. There are multiple vehicles out there.