Miller Electric, a US electrical and technology contractor and provider of EV solutions, has begun construction of a new facility in Jacksonville, Florida, called the Electric Vehicle Innovation Design Center (EVIDC). The EVIDC will house a diverse array of EV and microgrid technologies, including seven DC fast chargers and four Level 2 chargers from multiple… Read more »
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PXiSE Energy Solutions provides Microgrid Controller to Rove charging centers
US grid controls provider PXiSE Energy Solutions has announced that its patented-technology Microgrid Controller has been selected by Southern California charging center operator Rove to manage power flow at its dozens of planned full-service EV charging centers, which are scheduled to begin opening later in 2023. The PXiSE controller will manage the point of interconnection… Read more »
PowerCo says its new cell production procedure saves huge amounts of energy and floor space
Volkswagen Group-owned battery manufacturer PowerCo SE plans to introduce a new battery cell manufacturing method in its plants in Europe and North America. PowerCo predicts that its new Dry Coating procedure may save 30% of energy consumption and 15% of floor area, saving hundreds of millions of euros annually. According to a Joint Development Agreement,… Read more »
Winners and losers emerge as the Tesla charging bandwagon gathers speed
In a decade of covering the EV industry, I can’t recall ever seeing such immediate and near-universal praise for any development as I have for the news that Ford and GM will partner with Tesla to give their EVs access to the Supercharger network. The news broke in two waves, each of which swamped the… Read more »
MoveEV introduces employee-reimbursement software for home charging of fleet EVs
MoveEV, which specializes in assisting organizations and municipalities in taking advantage of government tax incentives for adopting electric fleet and employee-owned vehicles, has launched its ReimburseEV software. The program is designed to calculate monthly reimbursements, assist employers in tracking program metrics, generate downloadable IRS-compliant receipts and produce year-end reports for tax filing. MoveEV says the… Read more »
Designing EV charging networks in covered locations (Webinar)
How to solve communication requirements. With the rise in popularity of the EV market, so comes the increase in the necessity for EV charging stations in more convenient locations, like public parking garages. Covered public parking garages, and other busy urban environments, present a unique challenge: The ability to connect devices and communicate without interruption…. Read more »
Developing standards for EV charging reliability
Q&A with Frank Menchaca, President of SAE International’s Sustainable Mobility Solutions The reliability—or rather, the unreliability—of public EV charging stations is nothing less than a scandal, and it’s holding back EV adoption. This tragedy involves a cast of many players—automakers, charger manufacturers, network operators, electric utilities, and often a lot more—and all need to start… Read more »
Blue Bird delivers 60 electric school buses to Broward County Public Schools in Florida
Blue Bird is delivering 60 Vision electric school buses to Broward County Public Schools (BCPS). This represents Blue Bird’s largest e-bus fleet sale to date. Blue Bird’s Vision electric school bus can carry 72 students, and has a range of up to 120 miles. BCPS is the sixth largest public school system in the US,… Read more »
bp pulse and APCOA Parking collaborate to build European EV charging hubs
bp pulse and APCOA Parking Group have partnered to open more than 100 EV fast charging hubs across Europe.Under the agreement, bp pulse plans to install ultra-fast charging at APCOA car parks in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK over the next three years to help expand its charging network in… Read more »
Accelerating EV engineering with an integrated multiphysics design workflow (Webinar)
Predicting motor electromagnetics, noise, heat transfer, stresses, or simulating specific phenomena on an electric drive is technologically challenging and requires new fields of expertise and mindsets. Join this webinar, at our Spring Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, where Sudhi Uppuluri and Benoit Magneville from Siemens explain how a collaborative and flexible ecosystem connects the toolsets… Read more »