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APRIL 1, 2021

The new funding program complements BMVI’s funding concept for the overall charging infrastructure system in Germany: This includes private charging at home and at the employer. The 1,000-location program, for which BMVI has now passed the fast-charging law in the cabinet, forms the basis for a fast-charging network for all of Germany.

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JUNE 17, 2023

In addition to reinjecting electricity into the power grid, the bidirectional charger supports a vehicle-to-load (V2L) function for powering electrical appliances directly from the car.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) is making a total of €500 million available by the end of 2025 for the further development of the public charging infrastructure in Germany. This is the only way we can achieve a breakthrough in electromobility in Germany.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Germany is putting another €100 million into a subsidy program for private wallbox chargers, bringing the program total to €400M. Under the program, the purchase and installation of wallboxes are supported with a grant of €900. this enormous demand shows that we are spot on with our funding program.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Funding is provided for the purchase and construction of a brand-new, not publicly accessible charging station including the grid connection as well as associated necessary ancillary work. Funding takes the form of an investment grant that will be transferred to the applicant’s bank account after the project has been completed.

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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. Connected services for consumer EVs will reach 26.37

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary that provides sustainable energy and charging solutions, has partnered with ev.energy to launch the Volkswagen Group’s first intelligent household electricity tariff: Volkswagen Naturstrom Connect. With this offering, Elli and the Naturstrom Connect tariff has gained TÜV Rheinland accreditation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

Volkswagen and bp have launched a strategic partnership that will boost the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across Europe, unveiling their first charger in Dusseldorf, Germany. By the end 2024, up to 8,000 charge points could be available across Germany, the UK and other European countries.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

Photo: HANSAINVEST Real Assets A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot. MoveOn Energy, the solar farm’s developer , will install a further 45 MW of power on its own behalf and connect that to the grid by summer 2024.

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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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JUNE 29, 2018

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. Source: neon.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

ABB has won an order worth around $1 billion from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to supply a power link connecting offshore North Sea wind farms to the German mainland grid. A converter station here will feed electricity into the mainland grid. Plans are to double that by 2020.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The aim of the Federal Charging Infrastructure is to build 15,000 charge points across Germany. The subsidy is pro rata and covers not only the installation of the charging column but also the grid connection. The BMVI will provide a total of €300 million (US$352 million) to that end from 2017 to 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Further, consumers are unwilling to pay for other advanced features including autonomous driving, enhanced safety and connectivity. The majority of EV intenders expect to charge their vehicles at home, particularly in Japan (76%), India (76%), the US (75%) and Germany (70%).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

While the main energy source to Tevva’s electric trucks is grid electricity, the company optimizes hydrogen and fuel cell (H 2 FC) range extension to support the unique full-day, long-distance duty cycles of freight trucks.

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JUNE 1, 2012

for a “Power-to-Gas” project in Germany. The 2 MW energy storage facility, to be located in Falkenhagen in northeast Germany, will use surplus renewable energy sources to produce hydrogen for storage in the country’s existing natural gas pipeline network. Electrolysis company Hydrogenics Corporation has received an order from E.ON

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JULY 26, 2022

Uniper Energy Storage will test the construction and operation of a new salt cavern specifically built for hydrogen storage on a large scale and in a real-world environment at the natural gas storage facility in Krummhoern, Northern Germany, which has not been used commercially since 2017.

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MARCH 7, 2014

The aim of charge@work is to design a micro smart grid (MSG) capable of supplying the EV fleet with electricity produced exclusively from renewable sources. The MSG can be run in island mode in parallel to the grid operated by the local energy provider. The MSG is designed as a direct current (DC) grid. —Hannes Rose.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

They endorse the development of a hydrogen economy and infrastructure in Germany and in Europe. The immediate proximity of the sites allows optimum transport connections to the steelworks: The project includes the construction of two new pipelines to transport hydrogen and oxygen from Walsum to the steel mill less than three kilometers away.

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JULY 13, 2023

Subject to receiving the necessary permits and approvals, these would be bp’s first offshore wind projects in Germany and are fully aligned with the company’s integrated energy company strategy and disciplined capital allocation. bp operates two refineries in the country and Aral—Germany’s leading retail network with c 2,300 sites.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

MWh and uses used lithium-ion batteries from development vehicles to test various interaction scenarios between electric cars and the power grid. If one in ten passenger cars in Germany were electric, this would correspond to a flexible energy storage unit with a capacity of almost 200 GWh. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9

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AUGUST 1, 2022

Cummins has invested $24 million in Germany-based VoltStorage, a developer of stationary flow batteries. By investing in VoltStorage, we are taking steps to advance solutions focused on the grid and energy storage. The company says that it has the largest fleet of operating flow batteries in the world.

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JUNE 15, 2013

Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. This scenario would ensure that Germany meets its climate targets, Siemens said. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Electricity prices in comparison. Euro cents/kWh.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Connected to the grid or even off-grid, the station can charge up to four electric cars simultaneously, based on the principle of a ‘power bank’, two with DC quick charging. The charging station can be used as interim storage for eco-power; however, when connected to the mains power grid, it becomes a permanent charging point.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Customers can choose here between the basic version and two fully networked variants, which they can control using the We Connect ID. In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Within the framework of the initiative, the E-Mobility Group is bringing together the main players—e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers—thus promoting shared infrastructure solutions for truck customers within the network.

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JULY 5, 2023

NIO officially opened its new 1,500 square meter Innovation Center in Berlin, Germany. NIO’s Power infrastructure in Europe will have its R&D hub in the Innovation Center too, with a focus on Power Grid Service, and it will also act as the operational control centre for all European Power Swap Stations. Video-on-Demand.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. emissions for a century or more.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Volkswagen will partner with bp to launch a strategic partnership to roll out up to 4,000 fast-charging electric vehicle charge points in Germany and the United Kingdom within the next two years. ” The VW Flexpole chargers are produced in Suzhou, China, and Hanover, Germany.

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Teslarati

MARCH 12, 2024

Environmental activists who are occupying a forest near Tesla Giga Berlin in Grünheide, Germany, are making preparations for a potential eviction. This was largely due to the work of local grid operator E.DIS, which pushed hard to repair the damage caused by the incident.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

In Germany, the FastCharge research consortium ( earlier post ) has presented a prototype for a charging station with an output of up to 450 kW in Jettingen-Scheppach, located near the A8 motorway between Ulm and Augsburg. It can already work with higher voltages of up to 920 volts, as expected in future electric vehicles.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

and Daimler AG have invested in The Mobility House AG —a leading Germany-based provider of EV charging solutions and operator of stationary energy storage systems built with EV batteries. The V2G technology allows integration of EVs into the power grid as an aggregated swarm energy storage. Mitsui & Co.,

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Tesla and its partner Octopus Energy Germany recently rolled out retail utility services in two large German states. For bigger national grids it gets more complicated. Tesla Gigafactory site taking shape in Grünheide, Germany in June 2021. kWh battery wall unit. It is due to open in late 2021 or early 2022.

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MAY 24, 2014

Partners in Germany’s UR:BAN research consortium recently gave a mid-term status report on the three major component projects in an event at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Braunschweig, Germany. At the midterm event, object detection was demonstrated along with free space or generic object detection using grids.

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JULY 27, 2014

Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules, was selected by the Independent Electricity System Operator ( IESO ) for Ontario as one of five grid storage projects. IESO grid storage projects. —Daryl Wilson, CEO of Hydrogenics. Lead organization. Technology.

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