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3 Things Utilities Can Do to Prepare the Power Grid for More Electric Cars

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In light of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act and the NEVI program, new data from BloomberNEF predicts that EV sales will make up more than 50% of car purchases by 2030. Can the power grid actually handle that many electric cars? Aggressive legislation, technological advances, and production scale have helped push the U.S.

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Daimler Trucks E-Mobility Group starts global initiative for electric-truck charging infrastructure

Green Car Congress

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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GE Energy launches fully networked Wattstation and Wattstation Connect software; pay by smartphone

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GE’s WattStation Connect for mobile device users. GE Energy’s Industrial Solutions business unveiled the new WattStation and WattStation Connect software at the SAE 2012 World Congress in Detroit, Mich. WattStation Connect provides owners a user-friendly method to manage, monitor and maintain their EV charging ecosystem network.

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Wallbox introduces Quasar 2 next-generation bidirectional home charger at CES 2022

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The average American experienced more than eight hours of power interruption in 2020. Whether it’s caused by an earthquake, hurricane, wildfire or simply related to an overload on the power grid, a power outage can have a detrimental impact on homeowners that can last for hours or even days. Providing up to 11.5

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Audi presents plug-in hybrid TT offroad concept car at Beijing; wireless charging

Green Car Congress

Like many of the brand''s new production models, the Audi TT offroad concept is also based on the versatile modular transverse matrix (MQB). We chose to present the Audi TT offroad concept in China, our second domestic market, because it represents the urban mobility of tomorrow: It is sustainable, dynamic, intelligent and connected.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy.

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How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon

Cars That Think

Now the company means to solve the power problem on the moon with a service that can collect solar energy at the poles, where sunlight is never far away, and distribute it to places sunk in darkness. This grid is designed to deliver power where it’s needed via a fleet of robotic rovers. Think of it as a robotic extension cord.