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 »
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What are the details of California’s 2035 ban on sales of new gas-burners?
The California Air Resources Board has issued a rule that will require all new cars sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035. Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the ban on new gas car sales in 2020, and directed state agencies to draw up a plan. Now, after diligent bureaucratic toil and reams of public… Read more »
EnergyHub launches EV grid management solution for utilities
EnergyHub, a provider of distributed energy resource (DER) solutions for utilities, has announced a new grid management solution called EnergyHub EV, which is built on the core of EnergyHub’s Mercury DERMS platform. EnergyHub works with some 60 utilities to aggregate and manage more than 700,000 thermostats, EVs and chargers, water heaters, energy storage systems and… Read more »
BorgWarner acquires Rhombus Energy Solutions
Tier 1 automotive supplier BorgWarner has acquired Rhombus Energy Solutions. San Diego-based Rhombus provides EV charging and power conversion technology, including V2G applications. Rhombus supplies its patented technology to EV OEMs, including Proterra, as well as charging and grid service providers. The transaction has an enterprise value of up to $185 million. “The technology that… 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 »
VW’s Elli and Mitnetz Strom launch pilot for smart grid/EV integration
Elli, a brand of the Volkswagen Group, and German grid manager Mitnetz Strom have launched a pilot project to test the integration of EVs with a smart electrical grid. The Innovation Impulse for Future-Proof Grid Integration of E-Mobility project is intended to provide insight into what a practical implementation of smart charging could look like…. Read more »
Qualcomm’s new powerline communication device enables charging station-smart grid communications
Qualcomm’s next-generation powerline communication (PLC) device, the QCA7006AQ, is designed to enable CCS charging station communications. The new PLC device is based on Qualcomm’s QCA700X family of products, which have been widely adopted in EV on-board charging units and charging stations. The QCA7006AQ is compliant with the HomePlug Green PHY (HPGP) specification for vehicle-to-grid (V2G)… Read more »
Rhombus Energy Solutions to use Wolfspeed’s silicon carbide devices
Rhombus Energy Solutions, a provider of EV charging and power conversion technology, has announced that Wolfspeed (NYSE: WOLF) will supply its EV2flex line of charging products with silicon carbide MOSFETs, improving the products’ efficiency, power density and charging times. Wolfspeed’s 1,200 V silicon carbide MOSFETs will power Rhombus’s new EV2flex-120 charging infrastructure. Rhombus’s EV2flex charging… Read more »
Trends And Challenges On The Road To EV Charging Infrastructure Implementation
Leading technologists from academia, industry and materials development will share their insight and experience about the development realities and opportunities for fast and ultra-fast EV charging technology. The webinar will span many topics, including: Technical Solutions Enabling Fast and Ultra-Fast Charging Systems– Transition to silicon-carbide power electronics– Liquid-cooled charging cables– Modularity in low-voltage and high-voltage… Read more »
Ford announces pricing for its bidirectional home charger
Ford has launched its new Ford Charge Station Pro, a bidirectional home charging station designed to work with the upcoming F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. Ford designed the system in collaboration with Siemens. The system enables an F-150 Lightning to be used for backup power and other V2G applications. (It isn’t clear whether it would… Read more »