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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

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The remarkable advantage for BMW customers in using BMW i3 batteries as a plug and play storage application is the ability to tap into an alternative resource for residential and commercial backup power, thus using renewable energy much more efficiently, and enabling additional revenues from the energy market. ChargeForward.

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Three Battery-Electric Opel Merivas to Participate in MeRegioMobil Research Project; Vehicle-to-Grid Integration

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KIT and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research have built a “Smart Home” on the south campus of Karlsruhe University. A charging station connects the Meriva as a storage unit to this local energy grid. —Lars Walch of EnBW Energy Baden-Wurttemberg AG, and project leader of MeRegioMobil.

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The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management

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EV smart charging lets you monitor, manage, and adjust energy consumption. It requires a data connection between the EV, the charger, the charge point operator’s cloud-based charging management platform and the grid. . What is Smart Energy Management for EV Charging? What is the Flexibility Market for Energy?

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. Reproduce that across the numerous EV-involved industries from mining to recycling and the complexity involved becomes clearer.

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