There are many reasons to switch to electric cars instead of fossil fuel cars — better performance, quieter driving, lower operating and maintenance costs, and, of course, cleaner driving with zero tailpipe emissions. While many people buy electric vehicles for some of those initial benefits or for a combination of … [continued]
Today’s electric cars have larger batteries that need higher power to recharge them. Could that be a problem for utility companies?
The Dutch government states that a more stable electric grid, better use of renewable energy, and making money with your battery electric car (BEV) are the reasons it is promoting the use of smart chargers, which are able to invert the flow of the current to go from the car battery back into the grid.
For the past 15 months, Netze BW, the utility grid operator in Germany’s Baden-Württemberg region, has been studying the charging habits of electric car drivers in its service area. The data collected has been compiled to create a new report that allays many of the fears about charging lots of electric cars simultaneously.
There are two basic options with charging infrastructure. It can be connected to a central backend system via wireless internet (networked or “smart”), or not networked, meaning that it is not connected to an IT system (“dumb”).
Honda has released teaser images of the interior of its Urban EV. From the photos, the car will be thoroughly modern in every respect, including side view cameras instead of mirrors.
CleanTechnica and EV charging leader GreenWay last year led a working group of EV charging leaders — EVBox, Fortum, the Norwegian EV Association, and approximately a dozen others — to create EV charging guidelines for cities. CleanTechnica Director and Chief Editor Zachary Shahan presented a 10 key tips included in the report at a conference in the UAE in January. A video of the presentation is above, and a summary of it is below.
It’s the Netherlands again: Forerunner in e-mobility holds world premiere of IOTA’s smart & easy charging & paying without money, better than Blockchain.
Groupe Renault is launching a new smartphone app, Z.E. Smart Charge, as part a fresh new partnership with Jedlix. Renault never slows down, and its 25% investment in this Dutch startup focused on smart charging is another expansion of its ecosystem approach to electric vehicles.
The executive vice president of Shell’s New Energies division, Mark Gainsborough, revealed at a recent event in Amsterdam that the company is now working on the development of “smart” electric vehicle charging stations that will help to modulate demand on the broader electrical grid.
