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$2500 rebates for EV smart chargers launches this month! But guess what? Yep, there are conditions…

EV Central

A multi-million dollar federal government scheme providing up to $2500 to install an electric vehicle smart charger will commence this month. It came after lobbying from the automotive industry including the national Motor Trades Association of Australia and state-based groups such as the VACC. Learn more about DRIVEN here.

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GM launches Dealer Community Charging Program; > 40,000 charging stations and new smart EV supply equipment

Green Car Congress

GM and its dealers, together with local community partners and stakeholders, will help facilitate the installation of up to 40,000 Level 2 chargers at popular destinations and workplaces in the areas that dealers serve. GM’s family of Ultium Chargers will include: An 11.5 kilowatt/48-amp smart charger.

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myenergis Insight Into the CMA Report and the EV Charging Market

My Energi

As EVs become more mainstream, it is critical that more scrutiny is placed on this channel; as an industry we need to ensure consumers are fully educated and aware of the range of solutions available to them, some of which might have features they prefer or be priced at a level more suited to them. Smart charger installation.

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HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

Green Car Congress

The smart or deferrable charging station mode models the intelligent charging of a car or a fleet of cars to minimize the cost. The smart charger allows project developers to leverage HOMER Grid's capability to model demand charge reduction in any distributed renewable energy system and apply this to an EV charging station.

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BMW, Ford and Honda to create new company focused on optimizing EV grid services: ChargeScape

Green Car Congress

Benefiting both EV customers and the electric utility industry in the US and Canada, ChargeScape will unlock entirely new value that EVs can provide to the electric grid, while enabling EV customers to earn financial benefits through a variety of managed charging and energy-sharing services.

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Australia unveiled its new EV policy

Electric Vehicles India

It said that it will be helping the businesses set up charging stations for fleets and would “co-invest with industry” to install an estimated 50,000 smart chargers in homes. However before the last election in 2019, Morrison denied his support for electric vehicles at a press conference in Melbourne.

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Testing and refining EV charging standards: Q&A with CharIN’s Executive Director

Charged EVs

While it isn’t a standards development organization per se, CharIN works with standards bodies and firms in the EV charging industry to help refine new standards, and to test vehicles and EVSE for interoperability. And we’re creating conformance tests as well to support the industry outside of our formal events.