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HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

Green Car Congress

The software can model a range of applications, including an on-demand mode which charges vehicles as fast as possible, or a smart, deferrable mode where EV charging is optimized for the lowest impact on the utility bill. It can also solve for systems with the lowest carbon emissions and other factors.

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EnviroSpark has installed over 7,800 charging plugs. Here’s what the company has learned.

Charged EVs

Founder and CEO Aaron Luque shared with us some of the insights his company has gained about how to design and build a charging project that will be efficient and reliable. Now the vast majority are smart chargers with that cellular component. We have direct access to the chargers. We used to see a lot more of that.

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EnviroSpark has installed over 7,800 charging plugs. Here’s what the company has learned. – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Founder and CEO Aaron Luque shared with us some of the insights his company has gained about how to design and build a charging project that will be efficient and reliable. Now the vast majority are smart chargers with that cellular component. We have direct access to the chargers. We used to see a lot more of that.

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Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future

Charged EVs

And we came up to two different [insights] at the end of that study. Christian: Now you have a Level 2 EV charger that integrates with your system. It is a Level 2, 48-amp smart charger with a 25-foot cable. So, we feel like the engineering and even the science part of this is very low-risk.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

Atom Power, which IEEE Spectrum first highlighted in 2019, developed the first and only UL- listed and commercially available solid-state digital circuit breaker in the world and is turning 100 years of electrical systems-engineering design processes on their head.