Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 14, 2025

When you charge your electric car matters. Charging when overall demand for electricity is low reduces costs and emissions for the electric grid as a whole. In addition to utility programs, EV drivers in Massachusetts can participate in the Clean Peak Standard to earn rewards for charging off-peak.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The MoU underscores the signatories’ shared vision of integrating electric cars into the electricity system. The signatories Elli, Elia and re.alto say that the batteries of electric vehicles can help stabilize grids as the share of volatile, renewable energies increases.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2020

California has more electric cars than any other state, and a local utility wants to put them to work powering the grid. Southern California Edison (SCE) plans to launch a demonstration project for "vehicle-to-grid" or "V2G" technology, in which vehicles both charge and discharge power to the grid.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2021

A new study confirms that, even when charged from the dirtiest electricity grids, electric cars are still cleaner than internal combustion engines over their lifecycles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

Distributing grid operational decision-making is revolutionary. Today, utilities use complex software platforms called an energy management system (EMS) and advanced distribution management system (ADMS) to manage the demand, supply, and reliable delivery of electricity on the power grid. Everyone would have laughed at you.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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. It did so when there […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Critics insist electric cars will destroy the grid. But with the advent of vehicle to grid technology, the grid will become more resilient.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wind and solar-powered charging could further lower the environmental impact of electric cars; but one New York-based company wants to combine them in one electricity-generating device that could be used for EV charging stations or wherever grid-buffering might help keep blackouts at bay.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2022

A realistic pilot test conducted by Porsche, the grid operator TransnetBW and consulting firm Intelligent Energy System Services (IE2S), has demonstrated that electrical balancing power can be stored in the high-voltage batteries of an intelligent swarm of electric cars. —Dr Rainer Pflaum, CFO TransnetBW.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

And to do that, it will need a much more capable grid. Powering all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in California with electricity could raise demand by 25%, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing the opinions of energy-industry executives and analysts. California's.

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Electrek

JULY 21, 2021

A new study dispels the persistent myth that electric cars pollute just as much as gas-powered cars because they charge on a “dirty” electric grid, and mining for battery materials is polluting.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2018

FreeWire is a San Francisco-based company that has been a pioneer in flexible fast-charging technology for electric cars. It specializes in both stationary and mobile fast charging technology, allowing electric car charging to be deployed quickly and widely. Freewire products currently offer Level 2 charging at 7.5

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InsideEVs

JUNE 17, 2024

Let's investigate the myth that our electric grid can't "handle" a rise in EV adoption, and why our energy needs are changing so fast.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 16, 2023

A recent report from Ergon Energy highlights the need for electric vehicle driver encouragement to charge intelligently to protect the grid. CleanTechnica has published many articles about grid resilience and EV charging installs.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For those who care about the environment and keeping their driving footprint small, one of the most compelling selling points for electric cars is that your car gets cleaner over time—because the electricity you’re plugging into, from the power grid, is being weaned off coal and toward cleaner and more sustainable sources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2019

MWh and uses used lithium-ion batteries from development vehicles to test various interaction scenarios between electric cars and the power grid. Audi models will be equipped with an electrified drive—equivalent to roughly one million electrified cars per year. The Audi storage unit has a capacity of 1.9

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2020

The great thing about electric-car charging is that it can take advantage of existing grid infrastructure. A new project in the United Kingdom demonstrates the benefits of that. Siemens built charging stations into 24 lampposts on roughly a half-mile of Sutherland Avenue in London.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Toyota Motor North America and Oncor Electric Delivery, a Texas-based electric transmission and distribution company, have agreed to collaborate on a pilot project around vehicle-to-grid (V2G), a technology that allows vehicles to flow energy from their battery back onto the electric grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As the adoption of electric cars, trucks, and buses gains momentum, many people are wondering if the electric grid is up to the task of charging all of those vehicles.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 27, 2022

“If everyone came home at the end of the day and plugged in their electric car to charge, the grid would fail. Electric car drivers are just virtue signaling hypocrites as long as there is [insert any number here] fossil fuels powering the grid. […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There is a delightful fantasy out there that says the batteries in all the electric cars in the world could. continued] The post SAE Adopts New Standards For Vehicle-To-Grid appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Electrek

MAY 4, 2023

more… The post Can electric cars save the grid? A bill has been introduced in California which would require all EVs to have bidirectional charging capability starting in model year 2027. CA might require EVs to have V2G by 2027 appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The automaker announced last week that it's testing a DC wallbox that allows electric cars to discharge power back into the grid. It also allows cars to serve as energy-storage units for. Volkswagen is the latest automaker to experiment with bi-directional charging.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 31, 2021

President Biden on Wednesday detailed a cohesive infrastructure plan, and it targets policies spurring electric car adoption, funding for 500,000 charging stations, and work on an upgraded electrical grid among its many key points.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The mobile version consists of a truck that can travel around the city, charging electrical vehicles upon demand. L-Charge’s charging stations are mini power stations capable of generating and storing energy and charging electric cars with no need for a grid connection.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

Germany is adding another €100 million to its successful promotion of private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings, bringing the total to €500 million. We want more climate protection, more clean electric cars on our roads and more use of green electricity.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The idea of putting solar panels on electric cars is gaining more traction, both as a charging convenience and as a contribution to grid reliability and resilience. The post Electric Cars In Every Garage, With Solar Panels appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. This novel technology would deliver safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective electric power in the grid.

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The Driven EV News

JULY 29, 2024

Hybrid and plug in hybrid cars have more than twice the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of full battery electric cars in an average grid, but up to five times more emissions in a 100 pct renewable grid.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Whether it’s child labor in cobalt mining (shhh — cobalt is used in almost all electronic devices, but don’t tell anyone), range anxiety, or the collapse of the power grid if all electric cars charge at the same time, the internet is inundated with false statements and half-truths about electric.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 11, 2022

New Research Explores Potential Value of Implementing EV Managed Charging To Move Toward Realizing Effective Vehicle-Grid Integration It is 5 p.m., and you arrive home from work when it is peak demand for the grid. Your electric vehicle (EV) is 50% charged — you could either plug it in and charge right away or, if […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

SAE kicked off its pioneering pre-competitive research at a time when few contemporary electric cars existed and wireless power transfer (WPT) systems for EVs were an unproven concept. The technology is a safe and efficient method for transferring power from the AC grid supply to the electric vehicle. SAE J2954).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 25, 2024

Continuing on from Part 1 of this series on electric car & truck charging, here is Part 2. More Power Required for Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Charging than for Cars Fast charging heavy electric trucks is a much different proposition than fast charging electric cars.

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The Driven EV News

JULY 8, 2024

A group of 16 electric cars in Canberra have given a world-first demonstration of their ability to help prevent blackouts during a major grid emergency in February. The post The electric cars that helped keep the lights on when giant coal generator tripped appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The German government is topping up the funding for private charging stations for electric cars in residential buildings by a further €300 million (US$349 million). The purchase and installation of the wall boxes are supported with a grant of €900 (US$1,050). The grant is a flat rate of €900 per charging point.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

We’ve got some more findings to dive into based on the Interim Social Report from the Realizing Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Services (REVS) trial in Australia.

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