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Webinar: All You Need to Know About EV Charging (Video Included!)

CleanTechnica EVs

Four industry insiders explore some FAQs around home charging, grid resilience, and more!

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Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype

Cars That Think

In July, a Panamanian-flagged, Japanese-owned ship called the Fremantle Highway , which was ferrying 3,800 new cars across the Atlantic Ocean on its way to Singapore, caught fire. 498 of the vehicles in its holds were electric cars. With electric vehicles, they don’t have as much training and knowledge.”

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EV Charging Industry Protocols and Standards

Driivz

also offers the option to support plug and charge for electric vehicles supporting the ISO 15118 protocol. was featured in one of the Open Charge Alliance Webinars. The protocol can be used to communicate a real-time prediction of the local electricity grid capacity to the charge point operator. watch it here.

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Greentech Media | Japan Accounts for 70% of Electric Vehicle Patents

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email Japan Accounts for 70% of Electric Vehicle Patents A new report from Japan's Patent Office has found that the country comprises most of the patents for electric vehicles, which include EVs, hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. They do not include railway electric cars, which do not have wheels. by: Tech-On!

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And the EVA Board candidates are…

Electric Auto Association

Leadership as a director and officer of Electric Vehicle Association the past 3 years and through the dozens and dozens of outreach events I've done with Electric Car Insider. Terri’s Candidate Statement: I am so pleased to once again run for a national board position with the Electric Vehicle Association.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. Electric motors are generally three times more energy efficient than combustion engines.

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Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

Uri (the February freeze) is still in the forefront of many minds, so I tell them it’s now clear that going electric—and therefore using more battery power—stabilizes the grid, and that this is based on testimony given in the Texas State Legislature by the Advanced Power Alliance and the Texas Solar Power Association.

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