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Con Edison helping NYC drivers shift to EVs with more places to charge up

Green Car Congress

To keep those EVs powered up, there are 2,065 Level 2 chargers and 260 DC fast chargers in Con Edison’s service territory, more than 400 of them added in 2021. Customer interest is growing quickly in Con Edison’s PowerReady program, which offers incentives covering up to 100% of the infrastructure costs of installing new chargers.

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GM demos its new Energy products by running a mansion off a Silverado EV

Baua Electric

GM says it is working to reduce the amount of time the switchover from grid to car power takes, but that it will inevitably be slower than home battery solutions (which can respond in only a couple seconds, or even less than a second) because those stay continually energized, whereas the car requires more communication and a wake-up process.

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

Get Electric Vehicle

Vehicle to Grid is a really interesting area to do projects. The idea here is that you can connect your EV to the power grid and flow power from your EV to the Grid. An electric car acts as a load or micro-generating station for the grid. Advantages of V2G in grid perspective 2. are a few topics.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

A BMW owner, he is a possible future Polestar buyer, which made this a demo ride and reinforced my positive impressions. I used my solar-panel-powered Level 2 (240V) home charger, but if you’re on the road and want to top off quickly, DC fast charging at 150 kilowatts takes about 40 minutes to get you to 80 percent.

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AMPLY Power offers EV fleets guaranteed uptime and zero charging challenges

Charged EVs

In California, electricity costs for charging fleets could be up or down 400% in a single day. The first is the cost of electricity. When you get a product spec on a DC fast charger, oftentimes what’s missing is the audible noise level of that charger. How many decibels at three meters?

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This New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel

Cars That Think

As the translator moves back and forth in a straight line inside the coils, the magnets generate current that feeds an 800-volt DC bus. One big one involved our efforts to reduce the cost of physically attaching the magnet array to the outside of the translator tube. The stator is a series of copper coils. headquarters to see it run.

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