Used EVs are the gift that keeps on giving. Bargain hunters can score huge savings on an older EV, but that’s just for starters. As bidirectional charging becomes more common, the up-and-coming crop of used EVs will provide owners and fleet managers with new opportunities to help balance their local … [continued]
Blue Bird has delivered its two thousandth electric school bus, which is good news for back-to-school stories. The Swiss Post is introducing totally electric delivery for letters and parcels. This is the fourth straight month that Nio deliveries have exceeded 20,000. Meanwhile, smart is launching its EVs down in Australia. … [continued]
Solar saves in many different kinds of ways. Over 63,000 customers were powered by Sunnova SunSafe solar + storage systems during storms in July and August. The present-day grid requires urgent restoration, but at least Sunnova is there to save the day. California continues its efforts in bringing 400kW chargers … [continued]
Balancing Grid Supply and Demand with Electric Vehicles in Boulder, Colorado Charlottesville, VA — Fermata Energy, Xcel Energy, City of Boulder, Colorado CarShare and Boulder Housing Partners announced a collaborative Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) bidirectional charging pilot project at Boulder Housing Partners’ 30 Pearl development and the Molly’s Spirits Lakeside facility. This … [continued]
Charlottesville, VA — Fermata Energy, a pioneer in intelligent bidirectional technology solutions, today announced the integration of its Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) services platform with bidirectional EV chargers manufactured by BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA). Together, the companies are accelerating ongoing efforts to integrate bidirectional charging capabilities with a variety of automotive OEMs. … [continued]
For its 10th cohort, the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) formed an all-demonstration group where each participant would scope and perform a demonstration of their technologies as part of the program.
Editor’s note: UpDate: It’s for commercial use only – not residential. The Nissan-approved FE-15 bidirectional charger is available for commercial and government fleet owners. Update Info from Daniel Cherrin As long as I’ve been reading and writing about electric vehicles, people have been eager to see electric vehicles power homes and … [continued]
The first vehicle-to-grid system on NYC’s electricity grid launched this week. The system comes from a collaboration between Revel rideshare, Fermata Energy, and NineDot Energy. Revel’s rideshare system includes only fully electric cars. However, Tesla vehicles are not set up for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) service, so it’s just the rideshare network’s Nissan … [continued]
Today the City of Boulder and Fermata Energy released the results of how one Nissan LEAF saves the City of Boulder $270/month in energy savings, by using the stored energy from the LEAF to power their rec center. That is equal to the monthly payment for the LEAF. The results achieved in Boulder … [continued]
A new vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project is going into operation in Denver, Colorado. The Alliance Center, whose mission is “to demonstrate sustainability in action and mobilize change agents to accelerate solutions,” is installing a V2G system from Fermata Energy at their Denver offices.
