Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:28:17 +0000
Robin Zeng,. the founder and CEO of CATL, explained recently that he plans to take the company in important new directions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:38:10 +0000
Transport & Environment recently asked Germany’s highly respected Frauhhofer Institute to investigate the economic benefits of widespread V2G (vehicle to grid) technology in Europe. At the end of October, the organization issued a report, which found V2G has the potential to save Europeans up to $22 billion a year in … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:36:27 +0000
Con Edison and First Student are constructing a microgrid in Brooklyn to manage the charging requirements of electric school buses.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:57:33 +0000
Electric school buses and other electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid capability can help improve grid services for the whole community, by sharing the kilowatts stored up in their batteries.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:53:25 +0000
As some of you know, I was just recently hit straight on by Hurricane Milton. We went right through the center of the eye. (Ironically, it turns out, the actor who played Milton in Office Space — the stapler guy — is from Sarasota. How long has this been planned?!?!) … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:55:36 +0000
GM Energy’s new PowerBank home energy storage system offers prospective electric vehicle buyers another good reason to buy an EV today, not tomorrow.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:46:56 +0000
Easy, convenient home EV charging takes center stage as Ford launches new “Ford Power Promise” to attract potential electric vehicle buyers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:45:54 +0000
Sharp has just unveiled a new electric vehicle concept that recasts the humble minivan as a home-away-from-home for busy families and evacuees, too.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:19:31 +0000
Ford has a plan to hook up EV and hybrid EV drivers in the US with low-cost renewable energy, through a new vehicle-to-grid platform called ChargeScape in partnership with BMW and Honda.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:43:28 +0000
Vehicle-to-grid discussions have been around for as long as I’ve been reading about electric vehicles. The concept is simple: electric vehicles have big batteries, cars are parked most of the day (about 95% of the time), and those batteries could be used to help the grid deal with fluctuations in … [continued]
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