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Electrify America announces $200M additional investment for ZEV infrastructure and education in California

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Additionally, the company will direct $25 million of the $200 million investment for an initiative in the City of Long Beach and the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles (Long Beach-Wilmington), for a “Green City” program. Green City Investment: - $25 Million in Long Beach-Wilmington.

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CARB approves Electrify America’s second $200M investment in California

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Partial Consent Decree, CARB moved forward the company’s plans for DC fast-charging in more metro areas, adding charging for regional routes, and strengthening highway networks. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. In finding that Electrify America’s Cycle 2 California ZEV Investment Plan meets or exceeds all requirements of the 2.0L

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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One major tradeoff is what level of DC fast charging is required to allow trucks to fulfill their duty cycles. A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 Starting out, fleets may want to mix high- and low-power DC fast charging to see which meets the needs of different duty cycles and routes.

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Mercedes eSprinter first drive: here’s the deal – it’s a van, but it’s electric

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Mercedes also said that it managed to drive from Las Vegas to Long Beach, a 275-mile trip (albeit mildly downhill), on a single charge. Recharging is done either through AC charging at up to 9.6kW, or through DC fast charging at up to 115kW, which can get you charged from 10-80% in 42 minutes. The car said we got 2.0

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The Big Picture

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builds its rechargeable transit and charter buses. BYD says it owes its preeminence in the electric-bus market to the fact that its buses’ iron-phosphate batteries can be topped off through the AC or DC plugin ports, via overhead catenaries, and from inductive chargers embedded in road surfaces.

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Audi announces A3 e-tron battery electric vehicle pilot program in US

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Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in Long Beach, California. The power electronics module in the engine compartment converts the battery’s direct current (DC) to alternating current; a DC converter couples the 12-volt electrical system with the high-voltage system.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

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High-voltage DC current is more dangerous and harder to interrupt than the comparatively sedate 48 volts used in smaller vehicles. Littelfuse recently expanded its lineup of DC contactors to support next-generation commercial EVs The other thing of course is that drivers love them now, which is fantastic. Garbage trucks.