The Impact of EV Charging on the Grid

Credit to Author: Erin D’Amato| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:50:43 +0000

Tesla owners pulling up to plug in at specific Supercharger locations in the U.S. will soon be met with an unfamiliar sight: electric vehicles (EVs) from other car companies, parked […]

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How Will The Electric Grid Handle 100% Electric Vehicles? (Part 2)

Credit to Author: Brian Anderson| Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 08:33:28 +0000

Part 1 of this series outlined the total increase in grid capacity needed for a 100% electrified light duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in the US by 2040. It showed that with no additional technology, the required grid capacity increase is on the low end of historic grid growth. This part will cover a set of […]

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How Will the Electric Grid Handle 100% Electric Vehicles? (Part 1)

Credit to Author: Brian Anderson| Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:01:07 +0000

Handling a 100% electric vehicle (EV) scenario will require significant upgrades and modifications to the existing electric grid, but how much? And how does that compare to historic grid growth? We’ll start with an estimate of the additional grid capacity needed for a fully electrified light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in the US and then compare […]

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BMW, V2X, And The Death Of The Gasmobile

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 18:30:38 +0000

bmw ev v2x v2g grid pg&eBMW is stepping up from vehicle-to-grid EV charging to kick vehicle-to-everything (V2X) into gear, with an assist from the California utility PG&E

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Vehicle to Grid: The Least You Need to Know

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 05:48:37 +0000

We’ve all seen new technologies get hyped up that later turned out to be duds. Irrelevant. If we’d ignored those things all along, we then felt smart: we didn’t waste our time on that nonsense. On the other hand, cell phones turned out to be a Superthing. They’ve gone from being nothing to us, to […]

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Sonnen & TenneT Power German Grid With Electric Cars

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 01:07:22 +0000

TenneT and sonnen have announced that they’ve powered the German grid with electric cars. TenneT is a top electricity network operator in Europe, and sonnen produces and manages stationary battery storage systems. Working together, TenneT tapped into the electricity stored in electric car batteries that are part of the sonnenCommunity. It did so when there […]

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US Dept. Of Defense Inches Closer To Tactical Electric Vehicles

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 18:20:59 +0000

electric vehicles defense canooThe US Department of Defense is finally leveling up its interest in electric vehicles, and Canoo is front and center.

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Toyota To Study V2G In Texas In 2023

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 20:00:14 +0000

Here at CleanTechnica, we’ve written a great number of articles about Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) technology. It’s highly important not only to help stabilize the grid (thousands of EVs can help the grid keep up during unusual times using energy from times when the grid wasn’t so strained), but V2X (vehicle to X) can do anything from […]

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Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) Charging Approved For South Australia

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:19:19 +0000

A lot of EV models these days come with vehicle-to-load (V2L) capability as standard, which is pretty cool. For example, in Australia, the Hyundai IONIQ 5, the KIA EV6, the BYD Atto 3, and the MG ZS EV all come with V2L capability. V2L tech is proving that it is no longer just a nice-to-have […]

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