Green Car Congress
MAY 16, 2018
In Germany, Mercedes-Benz Cars has eight vehicle and powertrain plants (Bremen, Rastatt, Sindelfingen, Berlin, Hamburg, Kamenz, Kölleda, Stuttgart-Untertürkheim), which either purchase electricity or operate their own power plants. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. In this we limited the max price that retailers can charge consumers for power while forcing the very same energy retailers to purchase energy on the open market. No Fracking. Any fool can see that this has big risks.
Green Authority
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Now Tesla has the Powerwall and the purchase of Solar City is the final piece in the puzzle. Now Tesla has the capacity to capture, store and release the power for your home, car and almost certainly the rest of your life too. An electric power storage company setting up in a place called Sparks just cannot happen.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
EnerDel purchases their raw materials from suppliers in Japan and Korea but is working on localizing production in the US. EnerDel expects the pack to depreciate more slowly than the rest of the vehicle and to have a secondary life in fork lift trucks or residential power storage once the car has been recycled.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). Charge at home solves fully 95% of average charge need.
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