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ABB opens new plant for battery systems for mobility applications in Baden

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Integration of energy storage systems makes it possible to convert diesel trainsets into diesel hybrid vehicles, thus cutting CO 2 emissions by 30% with the possibility of achieving significant energy savings through recuperation. Unlike in Switzerland, many other European countries still have countless non-electrified railway lines.

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OEMs shifting towards onboard chargers > 6 kW for EVs; lower output chargers to remain dominant through 2020

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Manufacturers are developing bidirectional chargers that can interact with a power grid. More than 15 major companies supply onboard chargers globally, with Lear Corporation and Panasonic in key positions as suppliers for Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf. The 3.3kW chargers in today’s EVs are unidirectional.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

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They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. Hyzon Motors , one of the few firms working on ultraheavy trucks powered by fuel cells.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. Eaton Corporation, DC Wide Bandgap Static Circuit Breaker – $3,760,000.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. Eaton Corporation. SiC-Based Wireless Power Transformation for Data Centers & Medium-Voltage Applications. Earlier post.). 628,205.

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The Cash Back Hybrid

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N ot that long ago, the idea that the transportation sector might actually provide energy back into the stationary generation sector was pretty much on the outside of the bell curve of acceptable thinking. Here's an example from Spectrum Online : Can plug-in hybrid electric vehicles keep the electric grid stable?

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