A new Heavy Vehicle Charger product line for bus depots was recently unveiled by ABB at Busworld 2017. The product line — dubbed HVC-Overnight Charging — was designed to allow for the easy and cost-effective charging of plug-in electric bus fleets overnight, according to the company.
The company developing an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery “gigafactory” in Sweden, Northvolt, has just announced the establishment of a new partnership with the municipalities of Skellefteå and Västerås.
ABB has become one of the world’s leading EV charging station suppliers, and it is now leading the way into the compelling Indian market. The Indian subsidiary of the European electrical equipment giant has given a glimpse of its aggressive plans to capture a major share of this potentially giant market as India pursues its mission to adopt electric vehicles on a large scale.
Working with Spain’s ACCIONA, ABB has installed the largest solar power plant in South America in the Atacama Desert north of Santiago, Chile.
In an email just sent my way, ABB has announced that it is about to launch its first 150–350 kW high-power charger, the new Terra HP High Power Charge system. You can’t touch the Terra HP in an IKEA parking lot yet, but you can check out the breakthrough charging product at EVS30 in Stuttgart, Germany. The dates for that event are October 9–11.
The Switzerland-based engineering giant ABB will be working with Northvolt on that company’s project to build what will reportedly be “Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery production plant.” That battery factory will be in Sweden.
ABB has announced the acquisition of GE’s Industrial Solutions business, which expands ABB’s existing presence in the space while divesting a non-core segment of the GE portfolio.
Remote, off-grid mines can achieve up to a 28% reduction in fuel and CO2 emissions by using microgrids that combine solar photovoltaics (PV) and battery energy storage systems (BESS) with diesel generators, according to a new study.
The German utility firm EnBW has purchased 117 new electric vehicle charging stations from the Swiss engineering firm ABB for installation along cross-country networks in Germany, according to recent reports.
Revolution is a brewing. In two weeks, we will be in the midst of our second Cleantech Revolution Tour conference in Berlin, and our 4th overall. We have a tremendous lineup of speakers and panelists scheduled for Berlin and Wroclaw, and a unique format that will result on some practical end products.
Additionally, this year’s series brings “tour” into the agenda in a deeper way — with each conference held in two cities.
