CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2023

A recent report from Ergon Energy highlights the need for electric vehicle driver encouragement to charge intelligently to protect the grid. CleanTechnica has published many articles about grid resilience and EV charging installs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Electric cars are not a danger to the electrical grid. In fact, they may provide essential services that stabilize it.

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Green Energy Consumers

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As more and more people switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles (EVs), we hear a lot of questions along the lines of “can the grid handle it?” will we have enough clean energy resources to supply all the kilowatt-hours of electricity those EVs will need?), and sometimes it’s about costs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2022

Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new gallium-nitride (GaN) diode that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts—a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The CEO and General Manager of Terna, Luigi Ferraris, and the Chief Operating Officer of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) in EMEA, Pietro Gorlier, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint trialing of sustainable mobility services and technologies such as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G).

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Electrek

MAY 4, 2023

more… The post Can electric cars save the grid? A bill has been introduced in California which would require all EVs to have bidirectional charging capability starting in model year 2027. CA might require EVs to have V2G by 2027 appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 25, 2023

BC Hydro is announced Canada’s first vehicle-to-grid pilot project for medium and heavy-duty vehicles that will enable electricity to be pushed back to the grid from the battery of an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2022

A realistic pilot test conducted by Porsche, the grid operator TransnetBW and consulting firm Intelligent Energy System Services (IE2S), has demonstrated that electrical balancing power can be stored in the high-voltage batteries of an intelligent swarm of electric cars. —Dr Rainer Pflaum, CFO TransnetBW.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The MoU underscores the signatories’ shared vision of integrating electric cars into the electricity system. The signatories Elli, Elia and re.alto say that the batteries of electric vehicles can help stabilize grids as the share of volatile, renewable energies increases.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Toyota Motor North America and Oncor Electric Delivery, a Texas-based electric transmission and distribution company, have agreed to collaborate on a pilot project around vehicle-to-grid (V2G), a technology that allows vehicles to flow energy from their battery back onto the electric grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As more and more electric cars and trucks hit the road, utilities need to prepare the infrastructure to charge them. continued] The post Electrification 101: Getting The Grid Ready For An EV Revolution appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 22, 2022

Volkswagen continues to push the EV revolution forward with new electric cars and grid stabilization strategies.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The first vehicle-to-grid system on NYC’s electricity grid launched this week. Revel’s rideshare system includes only fully electric cars. The system comes from a collaboration between Revel rideshare, Fermata Energy, and NineDot Energy.

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Electrek

JULY 21, 2021

A new study dispels the persistent myth that electric cars pollute just as much as gas-powered cars because they charge on a “dirty” electric grid, and mining for battery materials is polluting.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As the adoption of electric cars, trucks, and buses gains momentum, many people are wondering if the electric grid is up to the task of charging all of those vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wind and solar-powered charging could further lower the environmental impact of electric cars; but one New York-based company wants to combine them in one electricity-generating device that could be used for EV charging stations or wherever grid-buffering might help keep blackouts at bay.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 27, 2022

“If everyone came home at the end of the day and plugged in their electric car to charge, the grid would fail. Electric car drivers are just virtue signaling hypocrites as long as there is [insert any number here] fossil fuels powering the grid. […].

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2021

A new study confirms that, even when charged from the dirtiest electricity grids, electric cars are still cleaner than internal combustion engines over their lifecycles.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and General Motors today announced an agreement to investigate the feasibility of integrating bidirectional EVs into the electric grid as a local energy resource.

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The Driven EV News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

More and more people are recognising the huge opportunities of electric cars, buses and trucks for the grid. The post Batteries on wheels: How to turn Australia’s EV fleet into a grid storage asset appeared first on The Driven. Charging behaviours and tariffs will be key.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 17, 2023

Several states are mandating all-electric vehicle sales by 2035, and one of the most commonly asked questions surrounding widespread EV adoption is “Can the grid handle all those electric cars?”

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EV Connect

APRIL 17, 2023

Can the power grid actually handle that many electric cars? The capacity is there, but to truly handle this new surge in EV grid demand, it will take planning on the part of utility companies across the U.S. The Coming Takeover of Electric Cars EV adoption is moving quickly. grid produced in 2020.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2020

California has more electric cars than any other state, and a local utility wants to put them to work powering the grid. Southern California Edison (SCE) plans to launch a demonstration project for "vehicle-to-grid" or "V2G" technology, in which vehicles both charge and discharge power to the grid.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 30, 2023

Enel X Way, the Enel Group’s global e-Mobility business, announced its participation in GRID Alternatives’ new utility pilot electric vehicle program, designed to increase access to EV charging, and therefore encourage EV adoption, in low-income communities through added incentives and savings.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

And to do that, it will need a much more capable grid. Powering all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in California with electricity could raise demand by 25%, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing the opinions of energy-industry executives and analysts. California's.

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Electrek

APRIL 11, 2024

A new study shows that drivers of electric cars are saving everyone billions of dollars on their monthly electricity bills — even the people who don’t drive EVs!

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 23, 2022

Duke Energy and Ford Motor Company are partnering to expand vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging using the new F-150 Lightning electric truck’s rugged batteries as a workhorse at home and on the electric grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 13, 2024

continued] The post EnergyHub & Toyota Collaborate to Support the Electrical Grid and Improve EV Ownership Experience appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 22, 2021

The idea of using vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology to stabilize the grid has been discussed for years. When will it become part of the electrification-of-everything landscape?

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 29, 2017

As the demand for electric cars grows, utility companies are considering their effect on local power grids—both positive and negative. The program.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 11, 2022

New Research Explores Potential Value of Implementing EV Managed Charging To Move Toward Realizing Effective Vehicle-Grid Integration It is 5 p.m., and you arrive home from work when it is peak demand for the grid. Your electric vehicle (EV) is 50% charged — you could either plug it in and charge right away or, if […].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The ability to have large numbers of electric cars store energy and feed it back into electric grids is still many years away, but researchers are studying how it could work in the real world.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

ABB electric vehicle charging station; via ABB. A new study shows that drivers of electric cars are saving everyone billions of dollars on their monthly electricity bills — even the people who don’t drive EVs! Because of this, EVs have helped apply downward pressure on rates. SYNAPSE ENERGY ECONOMICS, INC.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

Since June 2020, a team from the Australian National University in Canberra has been investigating the possible integration of electric vehicles into the grid. Known as REVS (Realizing Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Services), the trial is implementing vehicle-to-grid technology in a fleet of 51 Nissan Leafs in Canberra.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

We’ve got some more findings to dive into based on the Interim Social Report from the Realizing Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Services (REVS) trial in Australia.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Using plug-in electric cars as temporary energy storage and supply sources can stabilize the grid, a new study has found. A fleet of electric vehicles represents a large distributed array of storage batteries to an electric utility, potentially attractive for smoothing grid variations.

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