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BMW previews future electric SUV with faster charging, more range

Baua Electric

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025. Bidirectional charging to serve as home backup power Bidirectional charging is also part of the Neue Klasse vehicles. “This lowers electricity costs and helps stabilize networks.”

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BMW previews future electric SUV with faster charging, more range

Baua Electric

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025. Bidirectional charging to serve as home backup power Bidirectional charging is also part of the Neue Klasse vehicles. “This lowers electricity costs and helps stabilize networks.”

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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In Kecskemét (Hungary), a second plant under construction will be CO 2 -neutral. Just as in a hybrid or fully electric vehicle the advantages of so-called regenerative braking can be exploited in a DC-based grid: The energy can be efficiently converted back to electric energy when slowing down or stopping industrial drives or robots.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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Ukraine can now import up to 2 gigawatts of European power over links from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, enabling it to conserve domestic reserves of coal and hydropower. The result is an electrical backstop to help sustain Ukraine’s defenders and its civilian population.

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