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BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps

Baua Electric

billion to grow its EV business and undercut the competition with aggressively low pricing. And these “superchargers” aren’t just DC fast chargers – they can charge EVs to 80% in just 10 minutes. So, the city has to plan carefully so as not to overburden the grid as both EVs and superchargers rapidly come online.

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Researchers developing DC micro smart grid for charging EV fleets; Li-ion, redox flow batteries and renewables

Green Car Congress

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. — Dipl.-Ing

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Sandia, national lab partners studying vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

Green Car Congress

We have been studying potential impacts to the power grid. They looked at conventional AC chargers, DC fast chargers and extreme fast chargers. Electric vehicle owner interfaces were chiefly vulnerable to skimming of private information or changing charger pricing.

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Volkswagen Group sets up new group company for energy and charging: Elli

Green Car Congress

A high-end DC charging station with 22 kW can make the electric car an energy storage system and part of the smart grid of the future thanks to bidirectional charging and connection to an energy management system. home – charging at home: Smart energy management and photovoltaics. Charging on the road.

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What Does Battery Storage Mean for EV Drivers?

Blink Charging

In 2030, McKinsey estimates that there may be as many as 48 million EVs plugging into the US power grid, which means that utility providers are already preparing for the increased load. While electricity prices are generally cheaper and less volatile than gasoline, plugging in more EVs means that electrical demand will increase.

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

Cars That Think

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. Some observers thought V2G could prevent the kinds of price spikes and rolling blackouts then plaguing the Golden State.

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Shipping industry eyeing hydrogen fuel cells as possible pathway to emissions reduction; work by Germanischer Lloyd and DNV

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The paper examines the Phase 1 results of the DNV-led project FellowSHIP (Fuel Cells for Low Emissions Ships, earlier post ), the first large-scale fuel cell installation operating on board a merchant ship. The ship’s electric propulsion system therefore consume fuel cell power equivalently to power provided by the main generators.

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