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800-Volt EV Charging: The ?Other Palliative for Range Anxiety ???

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The Hyundai Ioniq5 and Kia EV6 that I recently tested—a pair of wildly impressive, high-design EVs—take a different approach to solving range anxiety: an 800-volt battery architecture that delivers some of the fastest charging in the EV game, and unheard of at these price levels. The Hyundai Ioniq5. The Hyundai Ioniq5.

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The Importance of Managed EV Charging

EV Match

Vehicle to X (V2X), where X can be load (L), home (H), another vehicle (V), or the grid (G), is an emerging technology that can distribute stored energy to the device in need. Since EVs have an immense amount of stored electricity, with V2X, they can re-direct that power back to other things. What is V2X? Compatible EVs.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. Those arguments are not yet settled. But big automakers like.

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Road Test: 2022 Kia Niro EV

Clean Fleet Report

Juicing up. The regenerative charging system converts kinetic energy into electric energy, when applying the brakes or coasting, and stores it in the battery. Road Test: 2020 Hyundai Kona Electric. This range is outstanding and equals or exceeds electric vehicles costing far more. Story and photos by John Faulkner. [

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Fast Food, Fast Charge

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And since even the speediest DC chargers take roughly 30 minutes to juice up an EV, drivers and passengers have time to kill, including enough time for a bite. 7-Eleven envisions its 7Charge network as one of the biggest fast-charging networks among convenience stores in the United States.

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Review: 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N enthusiast EV shows it’s worth the wait

Baua Electric

The good folks at Hyundai have scrambled my brain with the 2025 Ioniq 5 N, a devilish little electric compact crossover that might just be a motorsports game-changer. 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N – Emme Hall Green Car Reports sent me out to Laguna Seca Raceway with five specific questions—in bold below—to answer. mile front straight.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.