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AeroVironment licenses PNNL EV smart charger controller technology

Green Car Congress

Under normal conditions, this stabilizing technology will be particularly important as the power grid is expected to rely more and more on variable renewable resources such as wind and solar technologies.

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Is your smart charger about to become dumb? Don’t get caught out, says myenergi

My Energi

With thousands of new EVs hitting the roads this month to coincide with the March plate change, myenergi is recommending that drivers choose carefully when it comes to specifying a future-proof home charger, ensuring that it’s WiFi or ethernet-connected to ensure that it doesn’t ‘go dumb’ in the future.

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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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myenergis Insight Into the CMA Report and the EV Charging Market

My Energi

Charging at home is even more affordable if a homeowner has solar panels, a smart energy tariff and a genuinely intelligent EV charger ; allowing them them to harness energy when it is at its cheapest and greenest. Smart charger installation. Currently, 62% of EV owners charge their vehicles at home.

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Volkswagen Elli launches smart charging product offensive for Europe

Electric Cars Report

Volkswagen Group Charging (Elli) is launching its first smart charger in Europe. The Elli Charger 2 integrates via solar surplus charging with a home’s solar power system and can use price optimized charging to automatically charge when electricity market prices are lowest.

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Is an EV Home Wall Charger Worth the Investment?

EVolution

While a trickle charger typically adds 7km to 10km of range per hour, a level 2 fast charger can add up to 40km to 50km per hour for single-phase charging, like with the Marvin 7kW EV Charger , or even up to 150km per hour for 3-phase charging with a zappi 22kW smart charger.

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

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The company's efforts will reduce EV customers’ personal carbon footprints by utilizing electricity that comes from more readily available renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar. This will support the many EV customers who do not use “smart" chargers at home, as their EVs would otherwise be unreachable for grid services.

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