New York City has placed an order for an additional 71 of Beam Global’s EV ARC solar-powered EV charging systems. This is the city’s seventh order, and it brings its fleet of EV ARC EV charging systems to 160. The new units are flood-proof to 9.5 feet, wind-rated to 125 mph, and feature an emergency… Read more »
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ADS-TEC’s ChargeBox Dispensers can provide battery-buffered EV charging in indoor locations
ADS-TEC Energy has announced two new installation options for its battery-buffered ChargeBox system. The ChargeBox Dispenser can now be installed indoors, and the associated ChargeBox Booster outdoor battery—which was previously installed partly underground—can now be completely installed at ground level. The new installation options are available now in Germany, and are planned for other European… Read more »
Franklin Electric introduces switchgear for DC fast charging stations
Franklin Electric has introduced a new switchgear product that supports up to four 150 kW DC fast chargers. It’s part of the company’s new NexPhase line of EV products. “NexPhase is purpose-built to support the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) formula program, helping to enable EV charging site owners to maintain NEVI’s 97% charger uptime… Read more »
New cooling technique developed by NASA could enable EV charging at 2,400 amps
An advanced temperature-control technique developed for future NASA missions could also find applications in the EV industry, enabling greater heat transfer capabilities, and thus higher charging power levels. Numerous future NASA space missions will involve complex systems that must maintain specific temperatures to operate. Nuclear fission power systems and vapor compression heat pumps that are… Read more »
Pinellas County, Florida installs DC fast chargers to prepare for electric school buses
Pinellas County, Florida, the home of your favorite EV magazine, will soon be one of the first counties in the state to deploy electric school buses. The Pinellas County School District has (finally) received a $5.5-million grant from the 2016 Dirty Diesel Debacle settlement with Volkswagen. School districts in Broward, Manatee, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach… Read more »
Duke Energy tests EV batteries as grid resource in Florida lab
Florida utility Duke Energy is testing the V2G features of the new Ford F-150 Lightning at the company’s Energy Wise Lab in St Petersburg, Florida (the home of Charged). The R&D pilot will evaluate the viability of the Lightning’s high-capacity batteries and two-way charging capability as a way to power Florida homes during outages and… Read more »
Study examines dynamic wireless charging combined with energy storage
Dynamic wireless charging—charging a vehicle as it travels down a specially-equipped road—could someday make charging effortless and transparent. A new paper by Cornell researchers examines the possibilities of wireless charging roads equipped with energy storage systems. The new work, “Efficient energy management of wireless charging roads with energy storage for coupled transportation–power systems,” was published… Read more »
Electrify America to deploy public and fleet charging stations at 25 IKEA locations
IKEA has announced a collaboration with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to bring ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet vehicle charging to over 25 IKEA retail locations throughout the US. IKEA US aims to achieve zero-emission home deliveries by 2025, and to halve tailpipe emissions from customer and co-worker travel by 2030. The new… Read more »
Eaton joins EU-supported Flow Consortium to develop V2X technology
Power management specialist Eaton has joined a pan-European research project aimed at developing V2X technology. The research will focus on vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capabilities, including work on Eaton’s proprietary Buildings as a Grid energy management system. Supported by the EU’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation program, the €9.87-million ($10.41-million) project will span four… Read more »
NovaCHARGE to sell its charging hardware and software in Costa Rica
Florida-based EVSE manufacturer NovaCHARGE will now sell its charging hardware and software in Costa Rica through strategic partner Costa Rica Solar Solutions. NovaCHARGE’s products include the NC8000 Level 2 charger, and the ChargeUP Network, which provides an online management dashboard for remote administrative control, load management and reporting. Costa Rica has been promoting green energy… Read more »