Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2021

STMicroelectronics is introducing its third generation of STPOWER silicon-carbide (SiC) MOSFETs for power control for electric-vehicle (EV) powertrains and other applications where power density, energy efficiency, and reliability are critical. The same attributes also lower ownership costs in industrial applications.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Photo: Pivot Energy Walmart is investing in 19 solar projects under development across the US, including 15 community solar projects. Walmart’s strategic tax equity investment will drive the construction, operation, and maintenance of solar projects across five states – Illinois, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware, and California.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2016

Seneca Resource Corporation (Seneca) has applied for LCFS credits for producing crude oil using solar generated electricity. The Seneca Solar Project is a 3.13 MW alternating current fixed-tilt solar photovoltaic project located near the city of Taft in Kern County, California, at Seneca’s North Midway Sunset oil field.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

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 is designed as a direct current (DC) grid. Rose sees a host of advantages in decentralized power generation, but none more significant than being able to secure supply.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. A transmission network contains webs of connections, which create a reliable, redundant power-supply system of massive scale.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The electrically powered Volkswagen models can already be conveniently charged in the garage at home—using the ID. In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies. —Silke Bagschik, CMO ID.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

Singh, a power-electronics engineer, has been working to replace the internal combustion engines used in the company’s equipment with hybrid (diesel-electric) and all-electric versions. That was Singh’s job when he joined the company’s advanced power-electronics department in 2011 as a senior staff engineer.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

The researchers say the findings, published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy , can be applied to a broader range of settings. But DC fast chargers that provide a full charge in about half an hour were less affected than Level 2 chargers, which provide a full charge over eight hours. —Jan Kleissl, senior author.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Paired with renewable energy sources like solar, wind, or other energy sources, facilities can use the BES system to store and harness solar power or as a backup power source by storing energy from the grid. Incorporating a BES system can aid in lowering the operational costs of a DC fast charger.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded power management company Eaton $4.9 million for a program to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying direct-current (DC) fast electric vehicle charging infrastructure (EVCI). Yet, current charging technology can be prohibitively expensive to deploy on a large scale.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

The battery system stores excess energy generated from the photovoltaic (PV) power system during peak hours of PV generation and discharges the energy as needed, providing a solution as a household battery storage system that helps self-consumption of solar-generated power.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2020

The project is the first of its kind to achieve power transfer at this rate across an 11-inch air gap, advancing the technology to a new class of larger vehicles with higher ground clearance. The system transferred electricity from the power grid to the vehicle battery terminals at more than 92% efficiency. —Omer Onar.

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EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Alternative and renewable forms of energy help push the power industry toward a cleaner, more sustainable future. Naturally, it’s perfect to consider how pairing renewable energy like solar with EV charging can have a huge impact on the future of widespread adoption of both technologies. What Is Solar EV Charging?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. The Volkswagen Chattanooga Solar Park has a peak output of 9.5 The power will be used directly in production; solar power will provide up to 12.5% The Chattanooga Solar Park.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true. of EV sales in 2020. of electric vehicle sales in the US.

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Push EVs

MAY 13, 2022

At the same time, Beny’s new customized distributed energy security control + new energy vehicle charging solution for the European market – Solar PV + EV Charging. BENY PV + solution solves the safety guarantee of power transmission from renewable energy to new energy vehicles, and has been favored by many customers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

Two minutes from motorway junction A60/A61, it offers six 300-kW DC fast-charging stations and four 22-kW AC charging points. The charging processes use power from certified renewable sources. Part of the required electricity is provided by the photovoltaic system of solar cells on the roof.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Ideal Power Inc., a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc., Ideal Power Inc., a developer of a novel indirect power conversion technology ( earlier post ), and EnerDel, Inc., Ideal Power Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Ideal Power Inc., the developer of a new approach to electric power conversion ( earlier post ), has priced its initial public offering (IPO) of 3,000,000 shares of common stock at an offering price of $5.00 If the total over-allotment is exercised, Ideal Power expects the gross proceeds from the offering to be $17.25

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

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. If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

And these “superchargers” aren’t just DC fast chargers – they can charge EVs to 80% in just 10 minutes. According to data from the Southern Power Grid Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau, Shenzhen’s EV charging volume reached 670 million kilowatt-hours in Q1 2024, an 11% increase year-over-year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2021

Rhombus Energy Solutions announced the certification of its bi-directional 125 kilowatt (kW) DC fast charger to the Underwriter Laboratories 1741-SA standard.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Stationary fuel cell generators (FC generators) and rechargeable batteries will be introduced at stores, managed centrally by building energy management systems (BEMS), raising the proportion of renewable energy and electric power derived from hydrogen used. When power is generated in excess of store demand, the batteries charge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

In addition to providing Level I, Level II and Level III DC quick chargers, DBT USA has also secured strategic partnerships to offer a full range of sustainable charging infrastructure. Agreements with AllCell Technologies and Sun Phocus Technologies allow DBT to offer solar-powered turnkey on-grid and off-grid solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

As well as enabling EV owners to charge and discharge their electric vehicle to power their home or the grid, Wallbox’s latest innovation is designed to give EV drivers the ability to isolate their home from the grid and use their EV for backup power during a blackout. Providing up to 11.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The stations can be set up flexibly and independent of the power supply wherever needed: for example, in public parking lots in the city, on company premises, or as a temporary charging point at large-scale events. The mobile charging station works according to the principle of a power bank.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 6, 2021

TVS Motor partners Tata Power to develop EV charging infrastructure . TVS Motor has announced that it has partnered with Tata Power for the implementation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure (EVCI) across the country. Our partnership will substantially enhance customer convenience through world-class fast-charging solutions.”.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is a member of a team that was recently awarded a $7-million contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to demonstrate integration of electric vehicles, generators and solar arrays to supply emergency power for Fort Carson, Colo. Demonstration (JCTD) called the Smart Power Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

Connected to the grid or even off-grid, the station can charge up to four electric cars simultaneously, based on the principle of a ‘power bank’, two with DC quick charging. The charging station can be used as interim storage for eco-power; however, when connected to the mains power grid, it becomes a permanent charging point.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

Multiple industries, from wind and solar to aerospace and automotive, are looking to adopt high-efficiency, low-loss silicon-carbide semiconductors for inverter modules. Our new ELCRES dielectric film allows customers to leverage silicon carbide’s increased power capability while operating at temperatures up to 150 °C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Global power and automation technology group ABB and BYD Co., This collaboration will accelerate the introduction of new solutions for electric vehicle charging, the fast ramp up of renewables combined with energy storage in off-grid and on-grid solutions as well as battery and energy storage solutions for the fast growing marine segment.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Well, when an EV is charged, AC (alternating current) electricity from the grid is converted to DC (direct current) electricity, the kind that can be used by a car. This means that they can handle the electrical conversion back from DC to AC. They can even control the amount of power supplied to and from the battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The Department of Energy will lead one of the new institutes on “Next Generation Power Electronics Manufacturing” for wide bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) ( DE-FOA-0000683 ). Next Generation Power Electronics. Earlier post.). reducing the size of a sub-station to a suit case).

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In the process, the retailers help themselves with renewed interest in visiting the fuel retails even with EVs. EV chargers are divided into two key types: AC chargers and DC fast chargers. Some models will take several hours to charge if plugged into a charger, others need a few minutes only when plugged into a DC charger.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2010

Eaton Corporation is collaborating with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on a prototype integrated solar-assisted electric vehicle charging station to be erected at EPRI’s research laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. kW capacity). All subsystems are linked by being grid-tied.

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