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Groupe Renault creating first European factory dedicated to the circular economy of mobility in Flins

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RE-TROFIT: To extend significantly the life of vehicles. This entity will offer a simple, fast and cost-optimized logistics scheme thanks to industrial management in the factory, for the Île-de-France commercial network (RRG, dealerships, Renault Occasions/RVO).

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MAN eTGE battery-electric van to be mass-produced from July onwards

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A 40 kW charging station fills a battery up to 80% in 45 minutes. Approximately nine hours are needed for a full charge with 220V AC. With the relevant battery maintenance, the 36 kWh rechargeable battery only loses around 15% of its ca-pacity after ten years and around 2,000 charging cycles.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Sprout at Plug-in 2010

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Earlier this year, Nissan Nissan North America (NNA) selected AeroVironment to supply electric vehicle home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of the LEAF. Aerovironment’s home charging dock. The company offers a broad range of Level 1, 2 and 3 charging solutions. Click to enlarge.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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The machines are already generating electricity at scores of installations, and the company’s backers include some of the biggest names in tech investing, including Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla. EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles.

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EADS demonstrating electric and hybrid aviation propulsion; innovative distributed propulsion series hybrid

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New batteries with a higher energy density will be installed later on, which will increase the endurance to up to 1 hour 30 min. The batteries can be recharged in one hour, or they can be rapidly replaced by means of a quick-change system (available on the fully certified version). and 1 hour, EADS said.

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Renault Unveils Four Concept EVs and Quickdrop Battery Switch System; Commits to 100,000 EVs with Better Place

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In addition to standard charge and quick charge option, Renault also highlighted the exclusive “Quickdrop” system for battery switching at an exchange station such as that being developed by Better Place. They are charged by means of an extendible cable located behind the Renault logo at the front. Charging and Quickdrop.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added.

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