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DOE releases report from 6 projects evaluating EV charging impacts on grid and customer charging behaviors

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The work was done under the DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability’s (OE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG program). Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL). Major findings were grouped in three categories: charging behavior; grid impacts; and technology issues. Grid impacts.

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EnerDel Plans to Invest $237M in New Indiana Lithium-Ion Battery Plant

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Lithium-ion battery manufacturer EnerDel will invest $237 million in a new manufacturing plant near its Indianapolis headquarters in order to meet anticipated demand for advanced battery systems used in both automotive and stationary smart grid applications. The Indiana plant will be financed through a $118.5 Earlier post.)

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Ener1 Establishes European Division

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Our headquarters is in America, but many of our core customer relationships are in Europe, and it now becomes crucial to establish ourselves with a commanding presence in a market where we expect to aggressively build our business both in automotive and in the fast growing market of electricity grid storage and infrastructure.

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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In May, the US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Axion Power to fund a commercialization plan for the use of its PbC batteries in a low-cost, high-efficiency dual battery architecture for micro-hybrid (i.e., —Tom Granville. Micro-hybrids. start-stop) vehicles.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

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A lot of people don’t understand how that can be, but if you think about the topology of a charger, there’s the power electronics that are connected to the grid—that’s where the cabinet is—then there’s a cable going from there to where the vehicle is, and then there’s vehicle coupling. Bob Kacergis: Our biggest one is IndyGo in Indianapolis.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

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Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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