Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, despite what you may read in those “anything but EVs” articles, the jury’s still out on when, or whether, battery and charging specs will improve to meet these challenges, or whether some alternative tech such as dynamic charging, battery swapping, or (horrors!) Currently, less than 1 percent of those trucks are electric.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

As I indicated in the previous article , BP has turned over publication of the annual Statistical Review of World Energy to the Energy Institute (EI). Electric vehicles (EVs) spread rapidly, straining supplies of key minerals like lithium and cobalt. The full report and all data can be found at this link.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

In that article I divided carbon dioxide emissions into two broad categories: What has already been released into the atmosphere (the legacy emissions), and ongoing releases. Different strategies are needed to address the two categories; and 2). Different countries are primarily responsible for the different categories.

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Charged

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Dimensionally, the R1T sits squarely among the stalwarts in the mid-size truck category: Chevy Colorado, Ford Ranger, Nissan Frontier and Toyota Tacoma. Most already had gasoline pickups or SUVs, and some had Teslas, but for an electric vehicle, they wanted a truck—not one of the compact hatchbacks that made up the market of non-Tesla EVs.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Volvo’s first EV. That’s less than any other EV calling itself a “crossover” or “utility vehicle,” from the Chevy Bolt EV and its soon-to-arrive Bolt EUV “utility” sibling to any version of the Tesla Model Y. On the road, Volvo’s first EV is comfortable, quick, and eminently practical, with a large load bay.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

In Issue 49, we reviewed some of the more promising advancements in materials and construction techniques for EV traction motors , one of which—the axial flux design—will be the focus of this article. This article appeared in Charged Issue 54 – March/April 2021 – Subscribe now. Magnax’s axial flux inrunner motor design.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Electric vehicles have been one of the hottest categories for SPACs, as more than 24 EV-related companies agreed to go public via SPAC mergers over the last nine months. In just the first six weeks of 2021, SPACs raised $33 billion, more than was raised by all SPACs before 2020. SPACs are a timely innovation to achieve these goals.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

According to a 2019 McKinsey study , 82% of employees said that having purpose at work is important, while 75% said that purpose should weigh more than profit. Meanwhile, a 2018 HBR research report found that 9 out of 10 employees would be willing to take a pay cut (of up to 23% on average) to find more meaning at work.

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Charged

MAY 13, 2020

EV-related programs such as smart charging are a growing part of the mix. But there’s sort of an expiration date built into it—once you get to a certain level of EV penetration, you just create a new peak at the beginning of that charging window. And that brings me to the third category, which is true managed charging.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Quite a few next-generation transportation companies have used SPACs to go public this year, including EV maker Fisker and autonomous vehicle sensor company Velodyne Lidar. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com. The company's founder, Trevor Milton, resigned in September after being accused of fraud and sexual misconduct.

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Bidgely

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Using online marketplaces, utilities promote product and service offerings such as EV chargers, smart thermostats, PV panels, heat pumps, energy storage, HVAC maintenance and more. Arguably, no segment has as successfully cracked the code of customer engagement better than leading consumer brands like Netflix and Amazon.

Home Energy Monitoring 78

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Bidgely

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Using online marketplaces, utilities promote product and service offerings such as EV chargers, smart thermostats, PV panels, heat pumps, energy storage, HVAC maintenance and more. Arguably, no segment has as successfully cracked the code of customer engagement better than leading consumer brands like Netflix and Amazon.

Home Energy Monitoring 78

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Quite a few next-generation transportation companies have used SPACs to go public this year, including EV maker Fisker and autonomous vehicle sensor company Velodyne Lidar. The company’s founder, Trevor Milton, resigned in September after being accused of fraud and sexual misconduct. What is CRIS looking for?

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

There have never been more EV choices from automakers, and the Biden administration plans to build out more EV charging stations across the country. The ENERGY STAR program has had a major impact on home energy savings, to the extent that entire categories of appliances like refrigerators have made big improvements in efficiency.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. The article discusses the various policies and how they can be combined together to create hybrid policies with some examples drawing on Washington state provided.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

have trained roughly 1,500 New Yorkers, 400 of whom have moved on to full-time jobs in weatherisation, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), EV charging, data collection and more, according to the company. Robert Clark falls into this latter category. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the previous article , we looked at the various losses incurred on the AC side of the circuit while charging an EV’s battery (from the breaker in the load center to the EVSE inlet on the EV), as well as things that could be done to minimize them, either by the OEM, the electrical contractor or the EV owner.

Batteries 69

Batteries Energy Energy Electricity 69

R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 25, 2022

Following my previous article — How The U.S. In today’s article, I want to reiterate two threats to U.S. Those efforts will be the focus of my next article. Lithium is going to fall into that category. The more people I speak with about lithium, the bigger this story gets. Threats to National Security.

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Lithium South America Recycling Recycling 60

Charged

MAY 12, 2020

Most batteries used in EVs today have a liquid electrolyte, but researchers are seeking solid alternatives for two reasons. While evolutionary technologies like graphite-anode solid-state are generally approaching commercialization for use in EVs, the Holy Grail-type lithium metal solid-state batteries are still many years away.

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Business Energy Monitoring Batteries Lithium Building Energy Monitoring 138

Charged

MAY 13, 2020

This has been a puzzling and frustrating situation for EV advocates (and even more so for electric truck builders), because the economic case for electrification is strong. Hoping to ride that wave, the two founded In-Charge Energy to provide turnkey commercial EV infrastructure solutions.

Electricity 90

Electricity Energy Energy Demand 90

Charged

JANUARY 6, 2020

The electromobility revolution is gathering speed, but the world’s EV-makers have fallen behind popular tastes in terms of the form factors auto buyers want, and this has emerged as a roadblock to mass adoption. Ford also plans to partner with the startup to build a new EV.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Level 2 EV charging: 6:30 a.m. – ~ 9:30 p.m. my home’s demand ramped from negative 4 kW (achieved through solar over-production) to plus 4 kW as EV charging kicked in—a spread of 8.0 The Tesla Powerwall 2 came ahead in every category—the most important one being energy density. You can read more details in this GTM Article.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Level 2 EV charging: 6:30 a.m. – ~ 9:30 p.m. my home’s demand ramped from negative 4 kW (achieved through solar over-production) to plus 4 kW as EV charging kicked in—a spread of 8.0 The Tesla Powerwall 2 came ahead in every category—the most important one being energy density. You can read more details in this GTM Article.

Solar Energy Monitor 40

Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Innovation Business Energy Monitoring 40

Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2022

They belong to a category of vehicle - medium- and heavy-duty trucks - that belches out roughly 24 per cent of US transportation emissions, even though it makes up only five per cent of all the vehicles on the road, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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AutoGrid

JULY 7, 2022

This article defines three primary DER digital platform use cases (see box below.) The concept of VPPs ushered in concepts, tools, and technologies that allowed DR providers to expand the reach of their controls to adjacent asset categories such as generation and energy storage (and now EVs).

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a previous article, I detailed the process I went through figuring out how to include Alaska in our EV charging station plan for the Biden Administration. The first category: Alaska’s larger cities […].

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