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A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid

GreenBiz

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid. In the accelerating push to electrify transportation, one big obstacle always comes up: The grid. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? Especially when fast-charging stations gulp down prodigious amounts of power?

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London sees 60 percent spike in e-bike fires

Envirotec Magazine

In response, the London Fire Brigade has started the #ChargeSafe campaign, to alert people to the potential dangers of the bikes’ lithium-ion batteries, if they are of a poor quality and safety measures are not taken. These dangers are also present in electric car batteries.

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LEM’s DC meter enables EV fast charging station makers to accelerate deployment

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The US-certified DCBM 400/600 meter takes EV fast charging to another level By Mathieu Beguin, Global Product Manager at LEM With transportation accounting for over 20% of global CO 2 emissions in 2020 and 17% of all greenhouse gas emissions (according to Statista ), decarbonization is essential in this sector.

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EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

Mika Takahashi, Technology Analyst at market intelligence firm IDTechEx reviews highlights from a new report on an emerging sector Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric vehicles).

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55% of UK freight sector plans for battery EV fleet in five years

Envirotec Magazine

Two in five freight companies are using existing data to improve efficiency, meaning immediate opportunities to decarbonise fleets are being missed, according to a business connectivity provider for the transport and logistics sector. In fact, just 7% of operators don’t plan to adopt decarbonisation measures in this time period.

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Technology Trending: AI bird monitoring, LFP battery prototype, lithium for EVs, Moon to Mars

Smart Energy International

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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Solaris to supply Bucharest, Romania with 100 electric trolleybuses

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Solaris , a Polish producer of public transport vehicles, has announced that the Romanian Municipality of Bucharest has executed a contract for 100 Solaris Trollino 12 trolleybuses, with a base contract value of nearly €60 million. The vehicles are expected to arrive in Bucharest at the end of 2024. Source: Green Car Congress