Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

With the grants Enel X will help develop an innovative approach to public transit fleet electrification planning which will provide the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) insights to optimally electrify a portion of their new fleet, and will support the electrification of a portion of Hopkinton Public School District’s bus fleet.

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EV Obssesion

JUNE 21, 2021

Trailhead and urban locations to provide solar powered EV charging at multiple National Forest trailheads and municipal fleet-charging sites across America. Reliable and clean power in any location, for both grid-tied and off the grid power. 2 […]. 2 […]. The post iSun, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

Thomas Built Buses (TBB), a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America; its exclusive Virginia dealer, Sonny Merryman Inc.; The bus will further participate in a V2G strategy deployed by Highland Electric Transportation and utility provider, National Grid.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 30, 2022

Fleet Electrification Drives the Need for Changes. This year, the United States will begin to see an accelerated adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) for last-mile delivery, maintenance and service, freight hauling and public transit fleets; a positive trend, but one that will place additional stress on the grid. First, the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2023

The Department of Education’s purchase of 160 new Proterra Powered Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school buses represents the single largest order of electric school buses funded entirely by the EPA’s new Clean School Bus Program to date.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

Electrify America is investing $1.3 The investment will help Electrify America reduce its overall energy-related costs and lower the company’s impact on Sacramento’s electrical grid. Electrify America will purchase an interest in an energy storage program with the utility company.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) (Maryland) Board of Education approved a contract on Tuesday evening with Highland Electric Transportation, a provider of turnkey electric fleet solutions, to convert the MCPS school bus fleet to all-electric, starting with 326 school buses over the next four years.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group and a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, has installed charging infrastructure for a fleet of electrified commercial trucks as part of its ongoing partnership with Volvo Trucks. Heavy-duty fleets have unique charging characteristics and needs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2019

million (€5 million) in ViriCiti, a Europe-based EV fleet efficiency technology company ( earlier post ), in a Series A round. ViriCiti has developed and deployed a telematics platform for monitoring and managing electric bus and truck fleets, enabling fleet operators to optimize battery and vehicle performance.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Daimler Truck affiliate DTNA offers not only the expertise of developing electric trucks (start of production of battery electric Freightliner eCascadia and eM2 in 2022/23), but also the experience of providing consultant services to its customers, the large fleet operators in North America.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America have launched a collaborative research effort on integrating plug-in electric vehicles into the power grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

To keep those EVs powered up, there are 2,065 Level 2 chargers and 260 DC fast chargers in Con Edison’s service territory, more than 400 of them added in 2021. Electrifying Con Edison’s Fleet of Vehicles. Managed well, EV charging could bring many benefits for the electric grid. SmartCharge Registrations on the Rise.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

The startup’s chargers, which as of Monday are available for public use at a single location in New York City, can charge at a peak power rate of 500 kw and add 2,400 miles of range per hour of charging, equivalent to 200 miles in just five minutes, according to a Gravity press release. Tesla is set to add that capability in 2025.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 21, 2024

to the Next Level Organized by the Smart Grid Observer, the 5th EV Charging Infrastructure Summit – North America, July 15-17, 2024 in Chicago examines key challenges, opportunities and advances related to EV charging deployment in the U.S. Clean Fleet Report is an official Media Partner for this Summit.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

The technology group Wärtsilä, and its collaborators WEC Energy Group, (WEC), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Burns & McDonnell (B&McD), have been contracted to carry out hydrogen fuel testing at the A.J. Mihm power plant in Michigan. —Jon Rodriguez, Director, Engine power plants, Wärtsilä North America.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems company, Nissan North America is launching a new pilot program under the Nissan Energy Share initiative which leverages bi?directional The Nissan Energy Home allows guests to learn about Nissan Energy, the company’s vision for connecting homes, cars and power grids.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2023

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), SNC-Lavalin and Aecon have signed a contract for the deployment of a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) at OPG’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site. This is the first commercial contract for a grid-scale SMR in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The California Energy Commission (CEC) awarded $13 million to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and CALSTART to jump start California’s high-power charging infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The high-power charging support extending the range of electric trucks and increase their market penetration.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This is the first heavy-duty fleet-charging project stemming from a significant public-private partnership with the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The project will be one of the first in North America to demonstrate a new heavy-duty vehicle charging standard, SAE J3068 ( earlier post ), in real-world applications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2023

Blue Bird Corporation is premiering its next-generation Vision electric school bus at STN Expo West, a student transportation industry and technology event in North America. This will benefit Blue Bird customers who utilize the batteries’ revenue-generating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), along with several auto manufacturers, utilities, and regional transmission organizations, will demonstrate the Open Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) Platform software system, developed by EPRI and Sumitomo Electric Industries. Mitsubishi Motors R & D of America, Inc.; Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

These include energy shifting (moving in time the dispatch of electricity to the grid, often from times of excess solar and wind generation), peaking in the bulk power system (to deal with demand spikes), as well as for customers looking to save on their energy bills by buying electricity at cheap hours and using it later.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New Flyer of America has received a new contract from California’s Foothill Transit for 20 zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell- electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses. Our path to a fully zero emission fleet continues with the addition of NFI hydrogen fuel cell technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2021

EV Connect, a California-based software-as-a-service company, is collaborating with the Indiana-based Battery Innovation Center (BIC) and Energy Systems Network (ESN) to deploy Indiana’s first large-scale Vehicle-to-Grid capable charging system to support school bus fleet, HD truck, and other customer segment applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. MMNA) is supporting the University of Southern California (USC) and the Viterbi School of Engineering as it develops a special campus-wide Smart Grid “Living Laboratory” project including the use of Mitsubishi i-MiEV 100% electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Innovative EV charging developer FreeWire Technologies is improving its flagship lineup of Boost chargers to offer an even more flexible and capable lineup that now includes bidirectional capabilities, power sharing, and site backup should the local grid encounter any power outages.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2015

In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that worldwide revenue from vehicle-grid integration (VGI) services will grow from $335,000 annually in 2015 to $20.7 Or they can provide power back to the grid, a bidirectional system known as vehicle-to-grid power transfer, orV2G. million by 2024.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Addressing issues such as grid resiliency, energy demands for charging, and equitable rollout of charging infrastructure will be an integral part of a successful future for EVs in America. This, however, is only one piece of the puzzle. —Alliance for Automotive Innovation President and CEO John Bozzella.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel cell electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power. The project started on 1 July 2020 and will continue for three years.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true. of EV sales in 2020. of electric vehicle sales in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

As well as enabling EV owners to charge and discharge their electric vehicle to power their home or the grid, Wallbox’s latest innovation is designed to give EV drivers the ability to isolate their home from the grid and use their EV for backup power during a blackout. Providing up to 11.5

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2024

Southern California’s largest heavy-duty electric truck charging depot, powered by the US’s largest electric truck microgrid, is now online and fueled by natural gas. Performance Team will charge its fleet of Volvo VNR Electric trucks there – the e-trucks have a range of 240 miles and can charge up to 80% in 90 minutes.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

Logistics provider NFI and charging network Electrify America have announced the grand opening of NFI’s new DC fast charging facility in Ontario, California. The charging hub will support NFI’s fleet of 50 heavy-duty electric trucks, which perform drayage operations in and around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2020

The 580 EV is powered by a 480-volt, 90 kWh lithium-ion battery pack that can be charged by any 220-volt/three-phase connection. Two units have already been sold to utilities in the United States: NYSEG and RG&E, AVANGRID companies, and National Grid. Electrification was performed in conjunction with Green Machine Equipment, Inc.

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Plug In India

MARCH 1, 2021

And the Ather grid plays an important part in justifying the Energy moniker. ​The PluginIndia team charged the Ather 450x and other EVs via the Ather Grid charger provided by the Bengaluru based electric scooter brand. For 10000 years this was the only power that got used for everything - weaving, cooking etc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

AutoGrid’s flagship application, AutoGrid Flex, is ranked as the #1 Virtual Power Plant Platform worldwide according to a global ranking published in 2020 by research and analysis firm Guidehouse (formerly, Navigant Research). Vehicle electrification will exert more influence on the overall shape of energy demand year after year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center, Inc., a wireless power technology company, have been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicle Technologies (VT) program to research and develop a system for wireless fast-charging an electric vehicle at up to a 19.2

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